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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 the name of Ajax's son?
(a) Ephesianus.
(b) Euthercidenes.
(c) Eurysaces.
(d) Euripides.

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

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

4. Which god does Ajax ask for help in the first part of the play?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Pan.
(d) Apollo.

5. Ajax pleads to be allowed to die but says that who is keeping him alive?
(a) Athena.
(b) Ares.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Artemis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part I, who is the Chorus made up of?

2. Where are Tecmessa's parents?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Chorus foreshadow in Part 2?

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

3. What is the purpose of the initial conversation between Odysseus and Athena?

4. What started the Trojan War?

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

6. Why does Menelaus tell Teucer that he doesn't have to argue with Teucer?

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

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

9. What preparations did Ajax make to the sword so that he can use it to kill himself?

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

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