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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 is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Rondeau.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Villanelle.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

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

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

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