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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A face.
(c) An eye.
(d) A piece of armor.

3. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Four iambs and a trochee.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

4. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Awe and fear.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

5. 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) Physical characteristics.
(c) Personality and emotion.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

3. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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