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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) All-Powerful King.
(d) Egypt's King.

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

3. 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 alliteration in these lines.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) The sculptor's.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) The speaker's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

3. 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”?

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

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

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