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

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Lord Byron.

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

4. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Imagery.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Paradox.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

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

4. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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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