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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ode 4 (Fourth Stasimon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chorus in this scene is a group of singers and dancers who are meant to represent the _____________.
(a) Conscience of Creon
(b) Common man
(c) Mind of Antigone
(d) Fates

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

3. Thou, a ruler to whom ____________ brings not old age, dwellest in the dazzling splendour of Olympus.
(a) Night
(b) Time
(c) Temptation
(d) Peace

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

5. What is believed to be on Ismene and Antigone as a result of Oedipus and Jocasta's actions?
(a) Genetic disease
(b) A burden of making things right
(c) Curse
(d) Blessing

Short Answer Questions

1. Creon shouts that the gods do not favor the ________ such as Polyneices who show them disrespect.

2. Who did the king imprison in a story the Chorus relates about the idea of jealousy?

3. Creon believes that Antigone would have been trouble for Haemon both in and out of _________.

4. Haemon insists that all men can learn from any who can ____________, when talking to his father.

5. Whose decree proclaims that the body of the fallen man is not to be buried by anyone under punishment of death?

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