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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. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

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

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

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Consonance.
(b) Euphemism.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Personification.

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) The sculptor's.
(b) Ozymandias's.
(c) Rival kings.
(d) Ozymandias's subjects.

Short Answer Questions

1. In line 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?

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

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

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

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

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