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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tecmessa and Ajax's son leave the stage when Ajax shuts himself into what?
(a) His house.
(b) His ship.
(c) His tent.
(d) His carriage.

2. What is the function of the Chorus in Part I?
(a) To serve as help for Odysseus.
(b) To serve as Ajax's cheering section.
(c) To serve as a warning to Ajax.
(d) To serve as support for Ajax's wife.

3. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) Lord.
(b) Priest.
(c) King.
(d) Warrior.

4. What is Odysseus king of?
(a) Ithaca.
(b) Troy.
(c) Greece.
(d) Crete.

5. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?
(a) Doesn't want to raise his son.
(b) Doesn't want to leave Odysseus behind.
(c) Doesn't want to leave the battle.
(d) Doesn't want to face the humiliation.

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. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?

3. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?

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

5. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?

(see the answer key)

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