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

2. 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.

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

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) His army.
(b) Future civilizations.
(c) Other kings.
(d) His subjects.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

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”?

3. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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