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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tecmessa?
(a) Ajax's captive.
(b) Ajax's servant.
(c) Ajax's daughter.
(d) Ajax's wife.

2. In Ajax's youth, what did he want to win alone, without the help of the gods?
(a) Victory.
(b) Courage.
(c) Gold.
(d) Honor.

3. Tecmessa assures the Chorus that Ajax is filled with what emotion over his slaughter of the cattle?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Pain.
(c) Fear.
(d) Remorse.

4. What did the soldiers have out when they greeted Teucer?
(a) Bread.
(b) Swords.
(c) Knives.
(d) Wine.

5. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?
(a) The gods.
(b) His wife.
(c) The spirits of slain warriors.
(d) Agammemnon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the antistrophe?

3. What is Ajax carrying when he enters in Part III?

4. Who does Ajax feel has done him an injustice?

5. What does the Chorus think should "hide one who is sick in soul"?

(see the answer key)

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