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

2. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?
(a) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
(b) ABAB ACDC EDEF EF.
(c) ABAB BCBC CDCD EF.
(d) ABAB ACAC ADAD EE.

3. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?
(a) Desert.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Swampland.

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

5. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) Egypt's King.
(b) Fearsome King.
(c) King of Kings.
(d) All-Powerful King.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?

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

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

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