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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Athena appear from at the beginning of the play?
(a) Below.
(b) From the shadows.
(c) Above.
(d) The trees.

4. Teucer predicts that his father will feel what kind of grief?
(a) Ugly and horrendous grief.
(b) Sorrowful and distant grief.
(c) Pitiful and shameful grief.
(d) Painful and angry grief.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Ajax do in the middle of the carnage that he wrought?

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

4. Who says: Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good /That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

5. What does Odysseus offer to Teucer?

(see the answer key)

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