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

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

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

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

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Rival kings.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) Ozymandias's subjects.
(d) The sculptor's.

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. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

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

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

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

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