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

2. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Four iambs and a trochee.
(b) Two iambs and two trochees.
(c) Iambic pentameter.
(d) Iambic tetrameter.

3. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Paradox.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Imagery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue is still standing when the traveler sees it?

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. 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"?

4. How many voices are heard in "Ozymandias"?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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