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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) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Awe and fear.

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(b) Metonymy and assonance.
(c) Assonance and alliteration.
(d) Synechdoche and metonymy.

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A face.
(c) A piece of armor.
(d) An eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

3. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

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

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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