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

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

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

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Consonance.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Euphemism.

5. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) Just the legs.
(b) The torso and head.
(c) Just the head.
(d) The legs and torso.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. 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"?

3. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

5. 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”?

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