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

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

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

4. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?
(a) Metonymy and assonance.
(b) Synechdoche and metonymy.
(c) Assonance and alliteration.
(d) Sibilance and synechdoche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

2. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?

3. Which lines contain caesuras?

4. 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"?

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

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