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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Agamemnon denounces Teucer for being the child of what?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A foreigner.
(c) A slave.
(d) A servant.

2. Where are Tecmessa's parents?
(a) Captured.
(b) Dead.
(c) On a boat.
(d) In slavery somewhere.

3. What will happen to the rest of Ajax's armor?
(a) It will be thrown in the ocean.
(b) It will be used by someone else.
(c) It will be burned.
(d) It will be buried with him.

4. Who was Agamemnon's grandfather, according to Teucer?
(a) A slave.
(b) A sailor.
(c) A barbarian.
(d) A servant.

5. Who helps Teucer lift the body into the grave?
(a) Eurysaces.
(b) The servants.
(c) Tecmessa.
(d) The Chorus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ajax make his speech to the Chorus?

2. When Menelaus leaves the argument with Teucer, he says that he doesn't have to argue when he has what?

3. Which god does Ajax ask for help in the first part of the play?

4. Where does Part IV begin?

5. What does Athena say she will do to Odysseus before having Ajax appear?

(see the answer key)

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