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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Assonance and alliteration.
(b) Sibilance and synechdoche.
(c) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(d) Metonymy and assonance.

3. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?
(a) Cold and contemptuous.
(b) Startled and bewildered.
(c) Impassive and distant.
(d) Passionate and angry.

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

5. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Mystic."
(b) "Foreign."
(c) "Far-off."
(d) "Antique."

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

5. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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