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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Teucer greeted at the Greek camp?
(a) With silence.
(b) With isolation.
(c) With cheers and happiness.
(d) With taunts and insults.

2. What does the Chorus call the mood that Ajax is in during Part II?
(a) A curse.
(b) A black mood.
(c) A dark mood.
(d) A failing mood.

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

4. What are some of the normal events, that take place off stage, that the messengers bring word of?
(a) Ships sinking, deaths, and far-off events.
(b) Marriages, births, and battles.
(c) Suicides, battle,s or deaths.
(d) Battles, marriages, deaths, suicides, and far-off events.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of Part III, Tecmessa realizes that Ajax has done what to her?

3. By struggling against a prophecy, the characters are struggling against what?

4. Where does Athena appear from at the beginning of the play?

5. When does Teucer say: O ghastly sight! Victim of ruthless courage!

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