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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the stage directions, when Ajax dies, what is his body partially concealed by?
(a) The waves.
(b) The trees.
(c) The rocks.
(d) The underbrush.

2. When does honor first appear as a theme in the play?
(a) In the Chorus' third lines.
(b) In the Chorus' second lines.
(c) In the Chorus' last lines.
(d) In the Chorus' first lines.

3. Who does Ajax feel has done him an injustice?
(a) His father and Agamemnon.
(b) Agamemnon and Menelaus.
(c) Agamemnon and Odysseus.
(d) Menelaus and Odysseus.

4. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Temacus.
(c) Telanon.
(d) Odysseus.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Ajax want to find his body?

3. Tecmessa and Ajax's son leave the stage when Ajax shuts himself into what?

4. Which god does Ajax ask for help in the first part of the play?

5. According to the messenger, if Calchas' prophecy doesn't come true, then what is Calchas?

(see the answer key)

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