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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) Warrior.
(b) Priest.
(c) King.
(d) Lord.

2. The messenger tells a story to the Chorus that shows Ajax has what quality?
(a) Great confidence.
(b) Great pride.
(c) Great cunning.
(d) Great intelligence.

3. Who does the Chorus believe spread a rumor about Ajax slaughtering cattle?
(a) Ares.
(b) Hermound.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Odysseus.

4. Who does Ajax want to curse Agamemnon and Menelaus?
(a) The Harpies.
(b) The Horsemen.
(c) The Fates.
(d) The Furies.

5. Where does Ajax tell the Chorus he is going to go in order to appease Athena's wrath?
(a) To the meadows by the river.
(b) To the meadows in the trees.
(c) To the meadows over the hill.
(d) To the meadows by the shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made the prophecy the messenger refers to?

2. Who does Ajax pray will carry the news of his death to his parents?

3. Who is Athena?

4. What is hubris?

5. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?

(see the answer key)

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