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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the strophe?
(a) Front to back.
(b) Left to right.
(c) Right to left.
(d) Back to front.

2. What does Ajax's wife cover Ajax's body with?
(a) A robe.
(b) A rug.
(c) A towel.
(d) A blanket.

3. Where are Tecmessa's parents?
(a) In slavery somewhere.
(b) Dead.
(c) On a boat.
(d) Captured.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does honor first appear as a theme in the play?

2. What does Ajax pray for, after praying that his friends follow through on his instructions to have his son raised by Teucer?

3. Ajax tells the Chorus that he is planning to purify himself how?

4. What role does the discussion between Odysseus and Athena, at the beginning of the play, serve?

5. Who does the Chorus think will grieve if Ajax continues to be self-destructive?

(see the answer key)

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