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

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

3. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?
(a) Just the legs.
(b) Just the head.
(c) The torso and head.
(d) The legs and torso.

4. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?
(a) The graves of enemy kings.
(b) Gold and treasure.
(c) Military weaponry.
(d) Monuments and buildings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

2. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

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

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

5. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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