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

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) An eye.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A face.
(d) A piece of armor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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

3. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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

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