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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) Iambic pentameter.
(b) Two iambs and two trochees.
(c) Four iambs and a trochee.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

2. 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 sculptor's talent.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) The history of a king.

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

4. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) Monuments and buildings.
(b) The graves of enemy kings.
(c) Gold and treasure.
(d) Military weaponry.

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's subjects.
(b) Rival kings.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Ozymandias's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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