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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. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?
(a) Her death
(b) Her beauty
(c) Haemon's will
(d) Creon

2. Who enters in order to announce to the king that someone has tried to cover up the body of Polyneices?
(a) Young boy
(b) The prophet
(c) Sentry
(d) Messenger

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

4. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."
(a) Hell
(b) Heaven
(c) The ground
(d) The city

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thy power, O __________, what human trespass can limit? - the Chorus in this ode during the play.

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

3. What kind of image is used to show the wrath that is passed on to future generations?

4. What is not one of the things that Antigone reminds the people of when she addresses the people of Thebes?

5. And through the future, near and far, as through the past, shall this ___________ hold good.

(see the answer key)

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