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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) Sculptor.
(b) Visage.
(c) Passions.
(d) Lifeless things.

2. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?
(a) The brow.
(b) The jaw.
(c) The eyes.
(d) The mouth.

3. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 2 and 3.
(b) Lines 5 and 6.
(c) Lines 8 and 9.
(d) Lines 11 and 12.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

2. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

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

4. 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"?

5. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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