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

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

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

4. What did Tecmessa do to Ajax's son while Ajax was mad?
(a) Sent him to battle.
(b) Sent him home.
(c) Took him back to the ship.
(d) Hid him.

5. When is this play set?
(a) Late in the Spartan War.
(b) Late in the Trojan War.
(c) Early in the Spartan War.
(d) Early in the Trojan War.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the first speaker in the play?

4. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?

5. Who says, "As God appoints, so every man laughs or laments?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Chorus?

2. Who goes in search of Ajax in Part 3?

3. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?

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

5. Describe Odysseus.

6. What does Ajax pray for before leaving the Chorus onstage?

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

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

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

10. Before he dies, what are some of the things that Ajax prays for?

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