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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Antigone send to get coffee in Part 2?
(a) Creon.
(b) Haemon.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Ismene.

2. What is Antigone's plan in Part 2?
(a) To bury Polynices.
(b) To elope.
(c) To marry the king.
(d) To run away.

3. What is the Nurse doing when she is introduced?
(a) Preparing the medicine tray.
(b) Dancing merrily.
(c) Scrubbing the nursery.
(d) Winding wool.

4. In Part 2, what does the person who confronts Antigone say in response to Antigone's reply about where she had been?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) That Antigone is different from her sister.
(c) That Antigone's mother would be disappointed if she were still alive.
(d) That Antigone was raised carefully.

5. Who is Oedipus?
(a) King of Thebes.
(b) Creon's father.
(c) A lonley old beggar.
(d) A man with no destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices?

2. What is Antigone's sister's name?

3. What is the name of Antigone's dog?

4. In Part 2, what is one of the things Antigone says her family told her not to do?

5. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?

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