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

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

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

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) His army.
(b) Other kings.
(c) Future civilizations.
(d) His subjects.

5. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Visage.
(b) Sculptor.
(c) Passions.
(d) Lifeless things.

Short Answer 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"?

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

3. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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