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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 1 (First Episode).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the leader of the group who is telling the story within this section of the play?
(a) Choragos
(b) Antigone
(c) Creon
(d) Haemon

2. What did the person who tried to bury the body use in order to start to cover Polyneices up?
(a) Smoke
(b) Loose dirt
(c) A blanket
(d) Cement

3. What is the punishment for burying the body of the soldier in defiance of the decree during the play?
(a) Firing squad
(b) Poisoning
(c) Stoning
(d) Hanging

4. Whose decree proclaims that the body of the fallen man is not to be buried by anyone under punishment of death?
(a) Creon's
(b) Choragos
(c) Haemon's
(d) Oedipus'

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Antigone claims she will be ready to face a/an _____________ death if she is caught in her actions.

2. What does Ismene swear to Antigone when she hears of Antigone's decision to act?

3. Choragos speaks for the Chorus as ___________, pleading for more active support from others in the city during the play.

4. Whose body is to be left out to be pecked and torn apart, without a proper military burial?

5. Antigone reminds Ismene of family __________ when she tries to reason with her about her actions.

(see the answer key)

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