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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. That __________ which neither sleep, the all-ensnaring, not the untiring months of the gods can master.
(a) Spirit
(b) Honesty
(c) Truth
(d) Power

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

3. Creon shouts that the gods do not favor the ________ such as Polyneices who show them disrespect.
(a) Bastards
(b) Wicked
(c) Rebels
(d) Warriors

4. That _______, in turn, in brought low -- by the blood-stained dust die to the gods infernal.
(a) Truth
(b) Justice
(c) Peace
(d) Hope

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Choragos trying to get more active support from, pleading for this support as the Chorus would?

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

3. Creon realizes he still needs to prove his worth to the people as a _____________.

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

5. For that hope whose wanderings are so __________ is to many men a comfort, according to the Chorus.

(see the answer key)

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