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

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) "Antique."
(d) "Foreign."

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

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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

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