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

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(b) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

3. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) All-Powerful King.
(b) King of Kings.
(c) Fearsome King.
(d) Egypt's King.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

3. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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