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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. 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) Physical characteristics.
(d) Personality and emotion.

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

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Rondeau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

5. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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