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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 4 (Fourth Episode).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For that hope whose wanderings are so __________ is to many men a comfort, according to the Chorus.
(a) Eager
(b) Powerful
(c) Straight
(d) Wide

2. Where is Antigone led to after she has been given her sentence by Creon, the King?
(a) The fields
(b) The vault
(c) A platform
(d) The bathroom

3. Thy power, O __________, what human trespass can limit? - the Chorus in this ode during the play.
(a) Zeus
(b) Oedipus
(c) Antigone
(d) Creon

4. The Chorus notes that it can see that generation is not ____________ by generation during the play.
(a) Followed
(b) Spared
(c) Eased
(d) Freed

5. Who introduces the character of Creon to the play and to the audience who might be watching the play?
(a) Antigone
(b) Ismene
(c) Choragos
(d) Creon

Short Answer Questions

1. Choragos speaks for the Chorus as ___________, pleading for more active support from others in the city during the play.

2. That __________ which neither sleep, the all-ensnaring, not the untiring months of the gods can master.

3. What did the guards do in order to determine who would deliver the news to Creon?

4. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."

5. Creon sees his job as for the general _____________ over personal alliances and over personal friendships.

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