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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ismene try to do when Antigone wants to discuss her plan in Part 2?
(a) Convince Antigone that running away will solve nothing.
(b) Talk Antigone into getting someone else to do it.
(c) Talk Antigone out of it.
(d) Tell Antigone that she will help.

2. What does Antigone do when she is confronted in Part 2?
(a) Denies all accusations.
(b) Hints that the person who confonted her is correct.
(c) Falls to the floor weeping.
(d) Openly admits where she was.

3. Why isn't the boy alone on the side of the stage laughing and talking with the other characters?
(a) He is tasked with bringing news of Haemon's death.
(b) His father forbade him to speak to people above his station in life
(c) He is shy.
(d) He is listening intently to the conversation.

4. What is Creon's wife doing when she is introduced?
(a) Looking for her husband's socks.
(b) Brushing her daughter's hair.
(c) Knitting.
(d) Practicing her lines.

5. What is the character's name who introduces the other characters?
(a) Interlocutor.
(b) Creon.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 2, what does Antigone tell Ismene that she should not forgo?

2. What is Antigone wishing in Part 1?

3. What is Creon's occupation?

4. When Haemon enters, what does the Nurse do?

5. What is Antigone's response to Ismene's reply when Antigone tells Ismene about her plan?

(see the answer key)

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