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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 did Ajax do in the middle of the carnage that he wrought?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Cry.
(c) Collapse.
(d) Die.

2. What is Odysseus examining when Athena appears?
(a) The ground.
(b) The trees.
(c) The sky.
(d) The stars.

3. What is the name of the group of leaders who decides to give Odysseus the things of Achilles that Ajax wanted?
(a) The Council.
(b) The Ristrivide.
(c) The Senate.
(d) The Atreidae.

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

5. During Ajax's long speech in Part II, what does he feel has been destroyed?
(a) His honor.
(b) His life.
(c) His soul.
(d) His reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen to the rest of Ajax's armor?

2. What is the epode?

3. Who does Ajax give his son's care to?

4. What direction does the Chorus move when singing the strophe?

5. Who does Ajax first ask to kill him to put him out of his misery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ajax tell the Chorus he plans to do since Tecmessa has awakened his pity?

4. How, and why, does Athena protect Odysseus when she brings Ajax out of his tent?

5. Why does Odysseus pity Ajax?

6. What does the Chorus foreshadow in Part 2?

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

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

9. What does Athena say is the warning embodied by Ajax's behavior?

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

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