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

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

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

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”?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Alliteration.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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