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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen to Ajax's wife if he dies?
(a) Is given to another man.
(b) Re-marries.
(c) Becomes a slave.
(d) Has to stay home and raise her son.

2. How many people accompany Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

4. Who does Ajax feel has done him an injustice?
(a) Agamemnon and Menelaus.
(b) His father and Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus and Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon and Odysseus.

5. Who confirms Odysseus' suspicions that Ajax slaughtered a herd of cattle?
(a) Menaleus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Ajax.
(d) Terues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "As God appoints, so every man laughs or laments?"

2. Who is the first speaker in the play?

3. What does Ajax compare living without honor to?

4. In Part I, who is the Chorus made up of?

5. What does Athena say she will do to Odysseus before having Ajax appear?

(see the answer key)

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