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

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

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

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”?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

4. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

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

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