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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. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?
(a) An eye.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A face.
(d) A piece of armor.

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

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

4. Which lines contain caesuras?
(a) Lines 11 and 12.
(b) Lines 2 and 3.
(c) Lines 8 and 9.
(d) Lines 5 and 6.

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

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. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

4. What is the antecedent of the word "them" in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

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

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