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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told Ajax: Seek victory by the spear/But seek it always with the help of heaven?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His mentor.

2. Why does Ajax slaughter a herd of cattle?
(a) Out of fear.
(b) Out of madness.
(c) Out of spite.
(d) Out of jealousy.

3. Which god does Ajax ask for help in the first part of the play?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Pan.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

4. What does Ajax say the following words are: Foes' gifts are no gifts: profit bring they none?
(a) Good advice from wise counselors.
(b) Wisdom from his father.
(c) Ancient proverb.
(d) Wisdom from his mother.

5. According to the messenger, if Calchas' prophecy doesn't come true, then what is Calchas?
(a) A fraud.
(b) A foe.
(c) Not a friend.
(d) Not a prophet.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Ajax's mother's name?

4. In Ajax's youth, what did he want to win alone, without the help of the gods?

5. What is the antistrophe?

(see the answer key)

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