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

2. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) All-Powerful King.
(b) Egypt's King.
(c) Fearsome King.
(d) King of Kings.

3. 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.

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

5. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Mystic."
(b) "Antique."
(c) "Foreign."
(d) "Far-off."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

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

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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