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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Menelaus tell Teucer to do with Ajax's body?
(a) Bring it back to camp.
(b) Throw it in the sea.
(c) Leave it where it is.
(d) Throw it in the river.

2. Who urges Teucer to plan Ajax's funeral?
(a) Tecmessa.
(b) Ajax's son.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Odysseus.

3. Who says, 'No man may read the future, or his fate"?
(a) Athena.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) The leader.

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

5. How are prophecies in Classical Greek theater perceived?
(a) As infallible.
(b) As full truths.
(c) As possibly wrong.
(d) As partial truths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tecmessa do to Ajax's son while Ajax was mad?

2. After hearing the messenger, who does Tecmessa order to search for Ajax and bring him back to his tent?

3. What does Ajax say that all things must bow to?

4. Odysseus says that there were none save, perhaps who, that was a greater warrior than Ajax?

5. What does Ajax compare living without honor to?

(see the answer key)

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