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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) Impassive and distant.
(b) Startled and bewildered.
(c) Cold and contemptuous.
(d) Passionate and angry.

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

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

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) Other kings.
(b) His army.
(c) His subjects.
(d) Future civilizations.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In lines 6 and 7, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things," what it is that is "stamped," on the "lifeless things"?

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

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