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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tecmessa assures the Chorus that Ajax is filled with what emotion over his slaughter of the cattle?
(a) Pain.
(b) Suffering.
(c) Fear.
(d) Remorse.

2. How does Athena first refer to Odysseus?
(a) Son of Laertes.
(b) Son of Langed.
(c) Son of Lamentes.
(d) Son of Lional.

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

4. Who confirms Odysseus' suspicions that Ajax slaughtered a herd of cattle?
(a) Terues.
(b) Menaleus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Ajax.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ajax first ask to kill him to put him out of his misery?

2. How many people accompany Ajax's son onto the stage?

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

4. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?

5. What is the antistrophe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Sophocles have the Chorus enter, in Part 4, complaining?

2. What does Odysseus believe about burying Ajax?

3. While the search for Ajax is occurring, what does Teucer do?

4. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?

5. What does Ajax tell Eurysaces when he is brought out of hiding by his mother and two attendants?

6. Why does Ajax tell the Chorus that he is prepared to make peace with Agamemnon and Menelaus?

7. What is the general purpose of a messenger in Classical Greek theater?

8. What does Agamemnon tell Teucer he had no right to do?

9. What is the Chorus?

10. What does Tecmessa tell the Chorus the first time she appears, and in what tone does she say it?

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