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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. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) Temacus.
(c) Telanon.
(d) Odysseus.

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

3. 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.

4. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?
(a) By asking him to consider her shame if he killed himself.
(b) By mentioning that he has people depending on him.
(c) By asking him to consider his father's shame if he killed himself.
(d) By mentioning he has a son to raise.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day is it at the beginning of the play?

2. What is the function of the Chorus in Part I?

3. Who does Ajax give his son's care to?

4. What is the epode?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone of Ajax's long speech about his honor in Part 2?

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

3. What does Odysseus believe about burying Ajax?

4. When the Chorus unsuccessfully attempts to calm Ajax, what does Ajax bemoan?

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

6. What is a soliloquy?

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

8. What started the Trojan War?

9. When the Chorus calls for Tecmessa, after Teucer has arrived, what does the messenger tell Tecmessa?

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

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