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

2. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) Ozymandias's subjects.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Rival kings.

3. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Startled and bewildered.
(b) Passionate and angry.
(c) Cold and contemptuous.
(d) Impassive and distant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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”?

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

5. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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