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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) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Iambic tetrameter.
(c) Four iambs and a trochee.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

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

3. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Passionate and angry.
(b) Startled and bewildered.
(c) Cold and contemptuous.
(d) Impassive and distant.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

3. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

(see the answer key)

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