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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does the discussion between Odysseus and Athena, at the beginning of the play, serve?
(a) As the falling action.
(b) As the rising action.
(c) As the climax.
(d) As the exposition.

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

3. What sea would Ajax have to sail over to get home?
(a) Nothing, he would ride home.
(b) Cretian sea.
(c) Inland sea.
(d) Aegean sea.

4. Who says, 'No man may read the future, or his fate"?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) The leader.
(c) Athena.
(d) Odysseus.

5. Who does Teucer predict his father will vent his grief against?
(a) Those who didn't stop Ajax.
(b) Those who betrayed Ajax.
(c) Those who shamed Ajax.
(d) Those who fought Ajax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ajax strive not to be in his actions?

2. What is the function of the Chorus in Part I?

3. Not burying Ajax's body is a sign of what?

4. What does Ajax give to his son when he tells him that he must become a warrior?

5. Who does the Chorus think will grieve if Ajax continues to be self-destructive?

(see the answer key)

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