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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 smart man.
(b) A fool.
(c) A coward.
(d) A religious man.

2. Who brings Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Attendants.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Lords.

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

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

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

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

7. How many people accompany Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Ajax slaughter a herd of cattle?
(a) Out of spite.
(b) Out of jealousy.
(c) Out of madness.
(d) Out of fear.

13. What is the name of the person who wrote Ajax?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Socrates.

14. What does the Chorus call the mood that Ajax is in during Part II?
(a) A dark mood.
(b) A failing mood.
(c) A black mood.
(d) A curse.

15. What does the Chorus believe has afflicted Ajax?
(a) Madness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Envy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?

2. Who does Ajax tell Athena that he thinks he has captured, and will torture?

3. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?

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

5. What is the strophe?

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