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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ajax tells the Chorus that he is planning to purify himself how?
(a) By burning an offering to the gods.
(b) By burying his sword.
(c) By going home.
(d) By burying his armor.

2. Who made the prophecy the messenger refers to?
(a) Caligula.
(b) Calcinnea.
(c) Caliiadea.
(d) Calchas.

3. When Menelaus leaves, what does the Chorus want Teucer to do?
(a) Quickly clean Ajax's body.
(b) Quickly hide Ajax's body.
(c) Quickly prepare a grave.
(d) Quickly burn Ajax's body.

4. Who is Athena?
(a) Goddess of conflict.
(b) Goddess of peace.
(c) Goddess of war.
(d) Goddess of strife.

5. Odysseus says that there were none save, perhaps who, that was a greater warrior than Ajax?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Hector.
(d) Desdamond.

Short Answer Questions

1. Teucer's comments about Hector reveal a secondary theme, which is what?

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

3. What is Odysseus king of?

4. What sea would Ajax have to sail over to get home?

5. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?

(see the answer key)

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