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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of Ajax's son?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Ephesianus.
(c) Eurysaces.
(d) Euthercidenes.

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

5. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?
(a) Doesn't want to leave Odysseus behind.
(b) Doesn't want to face the humiliation.
(c) Doesn't want to leave the battle.
(d) Doesn't want to raise his son.

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

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

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

9. When does honor first appear as a theme in the play?
(a) In the Chorus' last lines.
(b) In the Chorus' first lines.
(c) In the Chorus' second lines.
(d) In the Chorus' third lines.

10. What role does the discussion between Odysseus and Athena, at the beginning of the play, serve?
(a) As the falling action.
(b) As the climax.
(c) As the rising action.
(d) As the exposition.

11. Tecmessa and Ajax's son leave the stage when Ajax shuts himself into what?
(a) His carriage.
(b) His house.
(c) His tent.
(d) His ship.

12. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?
(a) The stars.
(b) The sky.
(c) The ground.
(d) The trees.

13. Ajax pleads to be allowed to die but says that who is keeping him alive?
(a) Athena.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Ares.

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

15. What will happen to the rest of Ajax's armor?
(a) It will be buried with him.
(b) It will be burned.
(c) It will be thrown in the ocean.
(d) It will be used by someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?

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

3. Where does Athena appear from at the beginning of the play?

4. What does Ajax give to his son when he tells him that he must become a warrior?

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

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