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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Athena say she will do to Odysseus before having Ajax appear?
(a) Make him invincible.
(b) Make him wiser.
(c) Make him stronger.
(d) Make him invisible.

2. What does the Chorus think should "hide one who is sick in soul"?
(a) The forrest.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Hell.
(d) The sea.

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

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

5. What is Ajax's mother's name?
(a) Eriboea.
(b) Erintide.
(c) Earstiane.
(d) Etherian.

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

7. What did Odysseus get that Ajax wanted?
(a) Achilles' wife.
(b) Achilles' armor and weapons.
(c) Achilles' land.
(d) Achilles' title.

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

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

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

11. Where does Athena appear from at the beginning of the play?
(a) Below.
(b) The trees.
(c) Above.
(d) From the shadows.

12. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?
(a) Hide.
(b) Flee.
(c) Escape.
(d) Fight.

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

14. 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 mentioning he has a son to raise.
(c) By asking him to consider her shame if he killed himself.
(d) By mentioning that he has people depending on him.

15. The Chorus urges Ajax not to dishonor them, but to do what?
(a) Pay heed to the gods.
(b) Take back his insolence against the gods.
(c) Return to sanity.
(d) Return to his tent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During Ajax's long speech in Part II, what does he feel has been destroyed?

3. Who is the first speaker in the play?

4. When is this play set?

5. In Part I, who is the Chorus made up of?

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