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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 likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?
(a) To draw the reader's attention to the alliteration in these lines.
(b) To convey a sense of Ozymandias's hubris.
(c) To draw the reader's attention to the consonant rhyme.
(d) To stress that these are one and the same thing.

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

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"?
(a) The history of a king.
(b) The sculptor's talent.
(c) Physical characteristics.
(d) Personality and emotion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what does the word "visage" refer to?

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

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

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

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