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

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

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

4. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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

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