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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. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) William Blake.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Rondeau.
(b) Ballade.
(c) Villanelle.
(d) Sonnet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

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

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

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