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

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

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

4. Which technique is evident in line 6, "Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Personification.
(c) Consonance.
(d) Euphemism.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of landscape has the traveler been traveling through?

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

4. 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”?

5. What is the form of "Ozymandias"?

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