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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 antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Lifeless things.
(b) Sculptor.
(c) Visage.
(d) Passions.

2. 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) Asyndeton.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Antithesis.

3. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) Fearsome King.
(b) All-Powerful King.
(c) Egypt's King.
(d) King of Kings.

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A piece of armor.
(b) A weapon.
(c) An eye.
(d) A face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best description of the statue's expression?

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?

5. 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"?

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