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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 Wordsworth.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

2. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) The torso and head.
(b) Just the head.
(c) Just the legs.
(d) The legs and torso.

5. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Euphemism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

4. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

5. What technique is employed in the poem's final two lines, "Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare/ The lone and level sands stretch far away”?

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