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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 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) Antithesis.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

2. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The traveler's.
(b) The speaker's.
(c) Ozymandias's.
(d) The sculptor's.

3. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) The torso and head.
(b) Just the legs.
(c) The legs and torso.
(d) Just the head.

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A face.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A piece of armor.
(d) An eye.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

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"?

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