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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) Ozymandias's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) The speaker's.

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

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 stress that these are one and the same thing.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

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"?
(a) The history of a king.
(b) The sculptor's talent.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) Personality and emotion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

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

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

5. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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