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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 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.

2. 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”?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Asyndeton.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which lines contain caesuras?

2. Who is the author of "Ozymandias"?

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

4. To whom does Ozymandias address his remarks?

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

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