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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 technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Chiasmus.

2. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Rondeau.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Villanelle.

3. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) The traveler's.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) The speaker's.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author 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. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

4. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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

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