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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 1, what word does the speaker use to describe the land where the traveler has been?
(a) "Antique."
(b) "Far-off."
(c) "Mystic."
(d) "Foreign."

2. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?
(a) Anxiety and suspicion.
(b) Reverence and respect.
(c) Confidence and ambition.
(d) Awe and fear.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of the statue's face does the traveler describe?

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

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

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

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