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

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Reverence and respect.
(b) Anxiety and suspicion.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Awe and fear.

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

4. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Mystic."
(b) "Far-off."
(c) "Foreign."
(d) "Antique."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

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

4. What is the rhyme scheme of "Ozymandias"?

5. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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