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

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A face.
(c) An eye.
(d) A piece of armor.

5. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) The speaker's.
(c) The traveler's.
(d) The sculptor's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which lines contain caesuras?

3. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

4. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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