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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 jaw.
(b) The brow.
(c) The mouth.
(d) The eyes.

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"?
(a) Physical characteristics.
(b) Personality and emotion.
(c) The history of a king.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

4. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Startled and bewildered.
(b) Cold and contemptuous.
(c) Passionate and angry.
(d) Impassive and distant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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