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

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

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

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

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?
(a) Ballade.
(b) Rondeau.
(c) Sonnet.
(d) Villanelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ozymandias's quote imply should be standing around the statue?

2. 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"?

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

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”?

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

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