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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 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. Why does Ajax slaughter a herd of cattle?
(a) Out of fear.
(b) Out of jealousy.
(c) Out of madness.
(d) Out of spite.

3. Tecmessa and Ajax's son leave the stage when Ajax shuts himself into what?
(a) His ship.
(b) His tent.
(c) His carriage.
(d) His house.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What traditional element of Classical Greek theater consists of a number of actors speaking with a single voice?

2. How does Athena first refer to Odysseus?

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

4. Who says: Nobly to live, or else nobly to die/Befits proud birth?

5. What sea would Ajax have to sail over to get home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ajax refuse to go home?

2. Why is Odysseus standing outside of Ajax's tent at the beginning of the play?

3. What does Teucer think is Hector's revenge?

4. What does Athena say when she first appears to Odysseus and why does she appear?

5. What started the Trojan War?

6. When the Chorus unsuccessfully attempts to calm Ajax, what does Ajax bemoan?

7. What does Tecmessa tell the Chorus the first time she appears, and in what tone does she say it?

8. Why does Ajax tell the Chorus that he is prepared to make peace with Agamemnon and Menelaus?

9. What is a soliloquy?

10. What does Teucer tell Tecmessa to do with Ajax's body, after he places Eurysaces besides the body?

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