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

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

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

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

5. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Gold and treasure.
(b) Military weaponry.
(c) Monuments and buildings.
(d) The graves of enemy kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

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

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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