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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 title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) King of Kings.
(b) Fearsome King.
(c) Egypt's King.
(d) All-Powerful King.

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

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

4. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The jaw.
(b) The brow.
(c) The mouth.
(d) The eyes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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

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

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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