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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "Ozymandias" lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Blake.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

2. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Visage.
(b) Lifeless things.
(c) Passions.
(d) Sculptor.

3. In lines 6 and 7, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things," what it is that is "stamped," on the "lifeless things"?
(a) The history of a king.
(b) The sculptor's talent.
(c) Personality and emotion.
(d) Physical characteristics.

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.
(b) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.
(c) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.
(d) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

5. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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