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

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

3. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Foreign."
(b) "Antique."
(c) "Far-off."
(d) "Mystic."

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Rondeau.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Ballade.
(d) Villanelle.

5. 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) Physical characteristics.
(c) Personality and emotion.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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