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

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

3. What technique is used in line 8, "The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed"?
(a) Chiasmus.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Imagery.

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?
(a) His subjects.
(b) Future civilizations.
(c) His army.
(d) Other kings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the likely purpose of capitalizing "Works" (line 11) and "Wreck" (line 13)?

2. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?

3. 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”?

4. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

5. Which lines contain caesuras?

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