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

2. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Far-off."
(b) "Foreign."
(c) "Antique."
(d) "Mystic."

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Metonymy and assonance.
(b) Assonance and alliteration.
(c) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(d) Sibilance and synechdoche.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

3. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

5. 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”?

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