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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. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) Rival kings.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Ozymandias's subjects.

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

3. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The jaw.
(b) The brow.
(c) The mouth.
(d) The eyes.

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Assonance and alliteration.
(b) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(c) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(d) Metonymy and assonance.

5. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Swampland.
(b) Desert.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Mountains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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