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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. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

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

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

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 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"?

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