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

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

3. 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"?
(a) Personality and emotion.
(b) The history of a king.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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

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

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