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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sea would Ajax have to sail over to get home?
(a) Inland sea.
(b) Nothing, he would ride home.
(c) Cretian sea.
(d) Aegean sea.

2. What is the name of the group of leaders who decides to give Odysseus the things of Achilles that Ajax wanted?
(a) The Ristrivide.
(b) The Senate.
(c) The Atreidae.
(d) The Council.

3. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?
(a) The sky.
(b) The stars.
(c) The trees.
(d) The ground.

4. The Chorus urges Ajax not to dishonor them, but to do what?
(a) Take back his insolence against the gods.
(b) Return to sanity.
(c) Pay heed to the gods.
(d) Return to his tent.

5. What did Ajax do in the middle of the carnage that he wrought?
(a) Collapse.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Cry.
(d) Die.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ajax pleads to be allowed to die but says that who is keeping him alive?

3. What device is used, in Part II, to indicate that Ajax will die?

4. What is Odysseus king of?

5. When is this play set?

(see the answer key)

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