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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. What will happen to the rest of Ajax's armor?
(a) It will be burned.
(b) It will be used by someone else.
(c) It will be thrown in the ocean.
(d) It will be buried with him.

2. What role does the discussion between Odysseus and Athena, at the beginning of the play, serve?
(a) As the rising action.
(b) As the climax.
(c) As the exposition.
(d) As the falling action.

3. What time of day is it at the beginning of the play?
(a) Afternoon.
(b) Evening.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Dawn.

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

5. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?
(a) A coward.
(b) A fool.
(c) A smart man.
(d) A religious man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ajax give to his son when he tells him that he must become a warrior?

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

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

4. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Chorus foreshadow in Part 2?

2. How does Ajax plan to free himself from Athena's influence and why does he think it will work?

3. Who does the Chorus condemn, after Ajax has died, and why is the Chorus condemning them?

4. What does Teucer tell Tecmessa to do with Ajax's body, after he places Eurysaces besides the body?

5. Where, and why, does Tecmessa say that Ajax collapsed?

6. What is the Chorus?

7. What does the Chorus lament, now that Ajax is dead?

8. According to Teucer, why did Ajax join the Greeks in the Trojan War, and what effect does that have?

9. How is Teucer greeted when he arrived at the Greek camp, and why is he greeted that way?

10. Why does the Chorus believe that Ajax would be better off dead?

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