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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 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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