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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the antistrophe?
(a) The dancing of the Chorus.
(b) The turning of the Chorus towards the audience.
(c) The turning of the Chorus the other way.
(d) The beginning of the Chorus' song.

2. How are prophecies in Classical Greek theater perceived?
(a) As partial truths.
(b) As possibly wrong.
(c) As full truths.
(d) As infallible.

3. After hearing the messenger, who does Tecmessa order to search for Ajax and bring him back to his tent?
(a) The sailors.
(b) The servants.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) The soldiers.

4. Who made the prophecy the messenger refers to?
(a) Calcinnea.
(b) Calchas.
(c) Caligula.
(d) Caliiadea.

5. Who does Ajax first ask to kill him to put him out of his misery?
(a) His father.
(b) His son.
(c) His brother.
(d) The Chorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. By struggling against a prophecy, the characters are struggling against what?

2. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?

3. How is Teucer greeted at the Greek camp?

4. What does Ajax pray for, after praying that his friends follow through on his instructions to have his son raised by Teucer?

5. Ajax tells the Chorus that he is planning to purify himself how?

(see the answer key)

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