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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) King.
(b) Priest.
(c) Warrior.
(d) Lord.
2. What does Ajax compare living without honor to?
(a) Dying.
(b) Capture by the enemy.
(c) Living in fear.
(d) Living in shame.
3. What did Tecmessa do to Ajax's son while Ajax was mad?
(a) Took him back to the ship.
(b) Sent him to battle.
(c) Hid him.
(d) Sent him home.
4. Which side is Ajax fighting on?
(a) Athenian.
(b) Spartan.
(c) Greek.
(d) Menelian.
5. What is the name of the person who wrote Ajax?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.
6. Tecmessa assures the Chorus that Ajax is filled with what emotion over his slaughter of the cattle?
(a) Suffering.
(b) Fear.
(c) Pain.
(d) Remorse.
7. Who does the Chorus think will grieve if Ajax continues to be self-destructive?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His aunt.
(c) His mother.
(d) His sister.
8. Who does Ajax feel has done him an injustice?
(a) Agamemnon and Odysseus.
(b) His father and Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus and Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon and Menelaus.
9. Who brings Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Lords.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Attendants.
(d) Slaves.
10. What traditional element of Classical Greek theater consists of a number of actors speaking with a single voice?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The Group.
(c) The Men.
(d) The Orchestra.
11. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?
(a) A coward.
(b) A fool.
(c) A religious man.
(d) A smart man.
12. Who is Athena?
(a) Goddess of peace.
(b) Goddess of conflict.
(c) Goddess of strife.
(d) Goddess of war.
13. Who does Ajax think Achilles would have wanted to have his things?
(a) The gods.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Ajax.
(d) His mother.
14. Who does Ajax tell Athena that he thinks he has captured, and will torture?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Aias.
15. What is Ajax's mother's name?
(a) Eriboea.
(b) Etherian.
(c) Erintide.
(d) Earstiane.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?
2. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?
3. Why does Ajax slaughter a herd of cattle?
4. In Part I, who is the Chorus made up of?
5. Who says, "As God appoints, so every man laughs or laments?"
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