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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ajax tell the Chorus that Tecmessa awakened?
(a) His mind.
(b) His pity.
(c) His conscious.
(d) His sorrow.

2. Why did Ajax join the war against Troy?
(a) To honor his oath of loyalty to Odysseus.
(b) To honor his oath of loyalty to Agamemnon.
(c) To honor his oath of loyalty to Achilles.
(d) To honor his oath of loyalty to his father.

3. What happened to Agamemnon's mother, according to Teucer?
(a) She was thrown under a chariot.
(b) She was thrown off a cliff.
(c) She was thrown to the lions.
(d) She was thrown into the sea.

4. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Ajax's father.
(c) Ajax.
(d) The Chorus.

5. What did Odysseus get that Ajax wanted?
(a) Achilles' armor and weapons.
(b) Achilles' land.
(c) Achilles' wife.
(d) Achilles' title.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Athena?

2. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the antistrophe?

3. The messenger was supposed to keep Ajax in what location until Teucer could speak with him?

4. Teucer predicts that his father will feel what kind of grief?

5. Not burying Ajax's body is a sign of what?

(see the answer key)

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