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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. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Lord Byron.

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Reverence and respect.
(b) Confidence and ambition.
(c) Awe and fear.
(d) Anxiety and suspicion.

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

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Four iambs and a trochee.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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

5. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

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