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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Menelaus' title?
(a) Lord.
(b) Priest.
(c) King.
(d) Warrior.

2. Who are the Greeks trying to rescue in this war?
(a) Parriuls.
(b) Gredtha.
(c) Helen.
(d) Archemis.

3. What does Athena say she will do to Odysseus before having Ajax appear?
(a) Make him invincible.
(b) Make him stronger.
(c) Make him invisible.
(d) Make him wiser.

4. Who does Ajax feel has done him an injustice?
(a) Menelaus and Odysseus.
(b) His father and Agamemnon.
(c) Agamemnon and Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon and Menelaus.

5. What does Ajax mention doing to the sword during his soliloquy before his death?
(a) Using his sword.
(b) Sharpening his sword.
(c) Dulling his sword.
(d) Polishing his sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the epode?

2. In the stage directions, when Ajax dies, what is his body partially concealed by?

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

4. Who brings Ajax's son onto the stage?

5. Who says: Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good /That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

(see the answer key)

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