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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. Whose "passions" are referred to in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) The sculptor's.
(c) The speaker's.
(d) The traveler's.

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?
(a) William Blake.
(b) Percy Bysshe Shelley.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) William Wordsworth.

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

4. What is the meter of the poem's first two lines?
(a) Two iambs and two trochees.
(b) Four iambs and a trochee.
(c) Iambic tetrameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

5. Whose hand is being referred to in line 8, "The hand that mocked them"?
(a) Ozymandias's.
(b) Ozymandias's subjects.
(c) The sculptor's.
(d) Rival kings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 4, "Half sunk a shattered visage lies," what techniques are employed?

3. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

4. What does Ozymandias hope to inspire in his audience?

5. 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"?

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