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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the function of the Chorus in Part I?
(a) To serve as support for Ajax's wife.
(b) To serve as Ajax's cheering section.
(c) To serve as help for Odysseus.
(d) To serve as a warning to Ajax.

2. Who confirms Odysseus' suspicions that Ajax slaughtered a herd of cattle?
(a) Terues.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Athena.
(d) Menaleus.

3. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the strophe?
(a) Left to right.
(b) Back to front.
(c) Front to back.
(d) Right to left.

4. What is the antistrophe?
(a) The turning of the Chorus the other way.
(b) The turning of the Chorus towards the audience.
(c) The beginning of the Chorus' song.
(d) The dancing of the Chorus.

5. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?
(a) Outside Ajax's ship.
(b) Outside Ajax's tent.
(c) Outside Ajax's home.
(d) Outside Ajax's wagon.

6. Who is the only warrior greater than Ajax?
(a) Paris.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Hector.
(d) Odysseus.

7. Who does Ajax give his son's care to?
(a) Teucer.
(b) His mother.
(c) Aisis.
(d) His father.

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

9. What sea would Ajax have to sail over to get home?
(a) Aegean sea.
(b) Inland sea.
(c) Cretian sea.
(d) Nothing, he would ride home.

10. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the antistrophe?
(a) Back to front.
(b) Right to left.
(c) Front to back.
(d) Left to right.

11. Who does Ajax think Achilles would have wanted to have his things?
(a) His mother.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) The gods.

12. What did Odysseus get that Ajax wanted?
(a) Achilles' wife.
(b) Achilles' land.
(c) Achilles' title.
(d) Achilles' armor and weapons.

13. What did Ajax do in the middle of the carnage that he wrought?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Die.
(c) Cry.
(d) Collapse.

14. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?
(a) Flee.
(b) Escape.
(c) Fight.
(d) Hide.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ajax pleads to be allowed to die but says that who is keeping him alive?

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

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

4. When does honor first appear as a theme in the play?

5. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?

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