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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 sculptor's talent.
(d) The history of a king.

2. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Startled and bewildered.
(b) Impassive and distant.
(c) Passionate and angry.
(d) Cold and contemptuous.

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

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

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

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

4. 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”?

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

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