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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 2 (Second Episode).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Creon understands the problems of ______, yet elicits duty from them in their support of his decree.
(a) Age
(b) Women
(c) Men
(d) Warriors

2. What did Oedipus do when he realized the incestuous affair that took place with Jocasta?
(a) Try to kill Jocasta
(b) Try to kill Antigone
(c) Kill himself
(d) Blind himself

3. What is the punishment for burying the body of the soldier in defiance of the decree during the play?
(a) Poisoning
(b) Hanging
(c) Firing squad
(d) Stoning

4. Man has even taught himself, according to the Chorus, to flee the arrows of the ____________.
(a) Frost
(b) Enemies
(c) Wicked
(d) Peaceful

5. The ___________ accuse each other of being the one who buried the body illegally during the play.
(a) Women
(b) Chorus
(c) Prisoners
(d) Guards

Short Answer Questions

1. How many captains were at the gates and were matched again during the battle?

2. Who interrogates the Sentry when he reveals the person who is responsible for burying the body?

3. What is the color of the shield of Polyneices, according to the Chorus in this scene?

4. Who enters in order to announce to the king that someone has tried to cover up the body of Polyneices?

5. Man turns the soil of the land with the offspring of ____________, according to the ode.

(see the answer key)

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