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

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

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

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

5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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

5. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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