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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ajax compare living without honor to?
(a) Capture by the enemy.
(b) Living in fear.
(c) Dying.
(d) Living in shame.

2. Who does Ajax pray will carry the news of his death to his parents?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Ares.
(d) Apollo.

3. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the antistrophe?
(a) Front to back.
(b) Back to front.
(c) Left to right.
(d) Right to left.

4. Who told Ajax: Seek victory by the spear/But seek it always with the help of heaven?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) His brother.
(d) His mentor.

5. By struggling against a prophecy, the characters are struggling against what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Fate.
(c) Destiny.
(d) The Gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Hector tied to, and then drug behind?

2. What does inter mean?

3. During Ajax's long speech in Part II, what does he feel has been destroyed?

4. According to the messenger, if Calchas' prophecy doesn't come true, then what is Calchas?

5. What will happen to Ajax's wife if he dies?

(see the answer key)

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