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

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

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(d) William Blake.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

4. 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”?

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

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