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

2. What title does Ozymandias give himself in the statue's inscription?
(a) Egypt's King.
(b) Fearsome King.
(c) King of Kings.
(d) All-Powerful King.

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

4. 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 draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(c) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(d) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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

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

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