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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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