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

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

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.
(b) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
(c) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.
(d) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.

4. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(b) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(d) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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