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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?

2. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

3. 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”?

4. Which lines contain caesuras?

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

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