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

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

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

4. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To stress that these are one and the same thing.
(b) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Rondeau.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Villanelle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

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

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

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