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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the antistrophe?
(a) The turning of the Chorus towards the audience.
(b) The beginning of the Chorus' song.
(c) The dancing of the Chorus.
(d) The turning of the Chorus the other way.

2. Who are the Greeks trying to rescue in this war?
(a) Helen.
(b) Parriuls.
(c) Archemis.
(d) Gredtha.

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

4. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?
(a) By mentioning that he has people depending on him.
(b) By asking him to consider her shame if he killed himself.
(c) By asking him to consider his father's shame if he killed himself.
(d) By mentioning he has a son to raise.

5. Who does Ajax give his son's care to?
(a) His father.
(b) Teucer.
(c) Aisis.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What purpose does the messenger serve in Classical Greek theater?

2. Who is Athena?

3. What does Ajax tell his son that he must become?

4. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?

5. Who is the only warrior greater than Ajax?

(see the answer key)

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