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

2. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The speaker's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) Ozymandias's.

3. 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”?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Antithesis.

4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) Just the legs.
(b) Just the head.
(c) The legs and torso.
(d) The torso and head.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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"?

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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