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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 kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Desert.
(d) Swampland.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

3. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

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