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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. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 11 and 12.
(b) Lines 5 and 6.
(c) Lines 8 and 9.
(d) Lines 2 and 3.

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

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

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
(b) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.
(c) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.
(d) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.

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"?
(a) The sculptor's talent.
(b) The history of a king.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) Personality and emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

4. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

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

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