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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) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Four iambs and a trochee.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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. 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"?

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

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