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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ajax's wife try to talk him out of killing himself?
(a) By mentioning he has a son to raise.
(b) By asking him to consider his father's shame if he killed himself.
(c) By asking him to consider her shame if he killed himself.
(d) By mentioning that he has people depending on him.

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

3. Who brings Ajax's son onto the stage?
(a) Attendants.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Lords.
(d) Slaves.

4. Who is the only warrior greater than Ajax?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Hector.
(c) Paris.
(d) Achilles.

5. Who is Tecmessa?
(a) Ajax's daughter.
(b) Ajax's captive.
(c) Ajax's wife.
(d) Ajax's servant.

6. What is the function of the Chorus in Part I?
(a) To serve as help for Odysseus.
(b) To serve as a warning to Ajax.
(c) To serve as Ajax's cheering section.
(d) To serve as support for Ajax's wife.

7. Who does the Chorus believe spread a rumor about Ajax slaughtering cattle?
(a) Ares.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Hermound.
(d) Odysseus.

8. Who is Athena?
(a) Goddess of peace.
(b) Goddess of conflict.
(c) Goddess of strife.
(d) Goddess of war.

9. Who does Ajax think Achilles would have wanted to have his things?
(a) Ajax.
(b) His mother.
(c) The gods.
(d) Odysseus.

10. From what does Ajax's anger at Greek leadership stem?
(a) His wounded honor.
(b) His injuries.
(c) His greed.
(d) His illness.

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

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

13. What did Odysseus get that Ajax wanted?
(a) Achilles' wife.
(b) Achilles' title.
(c) Achilles' land.
(d) Achilles' armor and weapons.

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

15. Who does Ajax first ask to kill him to put him out of his misery?
(a) The Chorus.
(b) His brother.
(c) His father.
(d) His son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first speaker in the play?

2. When is this play set?

3. Where is Odysseus when Athena appears to him?

4. When Tecmessa confirms, to the Chorus, that Ajax slaughtered cattle, what does the Chorus say it might be time to do?

5. What did Tecmessa do to Ajax's son while Ajax was mad?

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