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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. In Part I, who is the Chorus made up of?
(a) Sailors.
(b) Servants.
(c) Gentlemen.
(d) Warriors.

2. Who does Ajax tell Athena that he thinks he has captured, and will torture?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Aias.

3. What traditional element of Classical Greek theater consists of a number of actors speaking with a single voice?
(a) The Men.
(b) The Orchestra.
(c) The Group.
(d) The Chorus.

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

5. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?
(a) Fight.
(b) Hide.
(c) Escape.
(d) Flee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Telamon?

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

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

4. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?

5. The Chorus thinks, during Part I, that Ajax's actions are a smear campaign carried out by the generals or by whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Teucer refuse Odysseus' help with Ajax's burial?

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

3. What would happen to Tecmessa if Ajax killed himself and why?

4. What does Teucer tell Eurysaces to do when he is placed besides Ajax's body, and why?

5. What is Ajax doing on the beach and how does he feel?

6. What started the Trojan War?

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

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

9. Why does Odysseus pity Ajax?

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

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