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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of the person who wrote Ajax?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Homer.
2. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?
(a) Ajax's father.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Ajax.
(d) The Chorus.
3. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) King.
(b) Priest.
(c) Warrior.
(d) Lord.
4. What is Ajax's mother's name?
(a) Earstiane.
(b) Erintide.
(c) Eriboea.
(d) Etherian.
5. Who did Athena protect throughout the war?
(a) The Creatians.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Spartans.
(d) The Trojans.
6. Who brings Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Attendants.
(c) Lords.
(d) Slaves.
7. What time of day is it at the beginning of the play?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Evening.
(c) Afternoon.
(d) Dusk.
8. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?
(a) Escape.
(b) Flee.
(c) Fight.
(d) Hide.
9. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?
(a) Agammemnon.
(b) The gods.
(c) His wife.
(d) The spirits of slain warriors.
10. Where are Tecmessa's parents?
(a) Captured.
(b) Dead.
(c) On a boat.
(d) In slavery somewhere.
11. The Chorus urges Ajax not to dishonor them, but to do what?
(a) Return to sanity.
(b) Pay heed to the gods.
(c) Take back his insolence against the gods.
(d) Return to his tent.
12. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?
(a) Outside Ajax's home.
(b) Outside Ajax's tent.
(c) Outside Ajax's wagon.
(d) Outside Ajax's ship.
13. What is the name of Ajax's son?
(a) Ephesianus.
(b) Eurysaces.
(c) Euthercidenes.
(d) Euripides.
14. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?
(a) The sky.
(b) The trees.
(c) The ground.
(d) The stars.
15. Who is the first speaker in the play?
(a) Athena.
(b) Ajax.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Odysseus.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who are the Greeks trying to rescue in this war?
2. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?
3. Who does the Chorus believe spread a rumor about Ajax slaughtering cattle?
4. What did Ajax do in the middle of the carnage that he wrought?
5. What is the name of the group of leaders who decides to give Odysseus the things of Achilles that Ajax wanted?
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