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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Telamon?
(a) Ajax's king.
(b) Ajax's father.
(c) Ajax's son.
(d) Ajax's brother.

2. Ajax pleads to be allowed to die but says that who is keeping him alive?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Ares.
(d) Athena.

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

4. What is the name of the person who wrote Ajax?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

5. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?
(a) Outside Ajax's wagon.
(b) Outside Ajax's tent.
(c) Outside Ajax's ship.
(d) Outside Ajax's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the strophe?

2. Why does Ajax slaughter a herd of cattle?

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

4. What is the antistrophe?

5. Who is the first speaker in the play?

(see the answer key)

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