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

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

3. How many parts are there to the Chorus' song that ends Part II?
(a) Seven.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

4. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) The Chorus.
(c) Ajax.
(d) Ajax's father.

5. Who did Athena protect throughout the war?
(a) The Spartans.
(b) The Creatians.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Trojans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device is used, in Part II, to indicate that Ajax will die?

2. What does the Chorus believe has afflicted Ajax?

3. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ajax plan to use the sword to kill himself?

3. What does Ajax's betrayal earn him, according to Menelaus?

4. What is a soliloquy?

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

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

7. What does Tecmessa think that Menelaus and Agamemnon will regret?

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

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

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

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