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

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

3. 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) Physical characteristics.
(d) The sculptor's talent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

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

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