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

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

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

4. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Visage.
(b) Lifeless things.
(c) Passions.
(d) Sculptor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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