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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 "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The traveler's.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Ozymandias's.

2. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Monuments and buildings.
(b) The graves of enemy kings.
(c) Military weaponry.
(d) Gold and treasure.

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 8 and 9.
(b) Lines 5 and 6.
(c) Lines 11 and 12.
(d) Lines 2 and 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

2. 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”?

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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