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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 brings Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Attendants.
(c) Lords.
(d) Slaves.

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

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

4. Who is the only warrior greater than Ajax?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Achilles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Odysseus king of?

2. Who is the first speaker in the play?

3. Who doubts Tecmessa when she says that Ajax is regaining his sanity?

4. Who did Athena protect throughout the war?

5. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ajax's state of mind right before he kills himself?

2. What do Menelaus and Teucer use to support their positions about Ajax's burial?

3. What does Teucer, after seeing Ajax's dead body, say his father will do?

4. Why does Ajax list the ways he thinks his honor has been destroyed?

5. What does Athena say when she first appears to Odysseus and why does she appear?

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

7. When the Chorus first appears, what do they say and why?

8. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?

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

10. What does Menelaus threaten Teucer with, if Teucer disobeys?

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