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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?
(a) A coward.
(b) A smart man.
(c) A fool.
(d) A religious man.

2. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?
(a) By mentioning he has a son to raise.
(b) By asking him to consider his father's shame if he killed himself.
(c) By asking him to consider her shame if he killed himself.
(d) By mentioning that he has people depending on him.

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

4. Who does the Chorus think will grieve if Ajax continues to be self-destructive?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His aunt.

5. What is the strophe?
(a) The turning of the Chorus away from the audience.
(b) The turning of the Chorus to one side.
(c) The middle of the Chorus' song.
(d) The finishing of the Chorus' song.

6. Who does Ajax first ask to kill him to put him out of his misery?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) His brother.
(c) His son.
(d) His father.

7. When is this play set?
(a) Early in the Spartan War.
(b) Late in the Trojan War.
(c) Late in the Spartan War.
(d) Early in the Trojan War.

8. Which side is Ajax fighting on?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Menelian.
(c) Greek.
(d) Spartan.

9. What device is used, in Part II, to indicate that Ajax will die?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Context.

10. Which god does Ajax ask for help in the first part of the play?
(a) Ares.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Pan.
(d) Apollo.

11. What will happen to Ajax's wife if he dies?
(a) Is given to another man.
(b) Re-marries.
(c) Has to stay home and raise her son.
(d) Becomes a slave.

12. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) Lord.
(b) King.
(c) Priest.
(d) Warrior.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day is it at the beginning of the play?

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

3. Who is Telamon?

4. Who confirms Odysseus' suspicions that Ajax slaughtered a herd of cattle?

5. What will happen to the rest of Ajax's armor?

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