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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ajax tell Athena that he thinks he has captured, and will torture?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Aias.
(d) Menelaus.

2. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Telanon.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Temacus.

3. Who is the first speaker in the play?
(a) Athena.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Ajax.

4. Who are the Greeks trying to rescue in this war?
(a) Helen.
(b) Parriuls.
(c) Archemis.
(d) Gredtha.

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

6. What does Ajax tell his son that he must become?
(a) A smart warrior.
(b) A benevolent warrior.
(c) A great warrior.
(d) A strong warrior.

7. Who is Telamon?
(a) Ajax's father.
(b) Ajax's brother.
(c) Ajax's king.
(d) Ajax's son.

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

9. Where are Tecmessa's parents?
(a) Dead.
(b) Captured.
(c) On a boat.
(d) In slavery somewhere.

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

11. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?
(a) The spirits of slain warriors.
(b) Agammemnon.
(c) The gods.
(d) His wife.

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

13. 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.

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

15. What is the epode?
(a) Middle of the song.
(b) Added song.
(c) Third verse.
(d) Ending of the song.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Chorus call the mood that Ajax is in during Part II?

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

3. What is Ajax's mother's name?

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

5. Tecmessa and Ajax's son leave the stage when Ajax shuts himself into what?

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