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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. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) His subjects.
(b) Future civilizations.
(c) Other kings.
(d) His army.

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

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”?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Asyndeton.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A face.
(c) An eye.
(d) A piece of armor.

5. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 5 and 6.
(b) Lines 11 and 12.
(c) Lines 2 and 3.
(d) Lines 8 and 9.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

2. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

4. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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