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

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Confidence and ambition.
(b) Awe and fear.
(c) Reverence and respect.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

3. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Paradox.

4. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Swampland.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Desert.
(d) Mountains.

5. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 11 and 12.
(b) Lines 5 and 6.
(c) Lines 2 and 3.
(d) Lines 8 and 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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