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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ode 2 (Second Stasimon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who killed herself when she realized the incestuous relationship had taken place?
(a) Hera
(b) Eurydice
(c) Jocasta
(d) Antigone

2. Eteocles fought for Thebes and thus he will receive a ___________________ after his death.
(a) Pension for his family
(b) Book
(c) Full military burial
(d) Statue in his memory

3. What is the relationship between Eteocles and Polyneices in the play, even though they fight each other?
(a) Brothers
(b) Cousins
(c) Lovers
(d) Father and son

4. Who slew Polyneices during that final battle that caused him to be left without a proper burial?
(a) Eteocles
(b) Creon
(c) Haemon
(d) Antigone

5. Man turns the soil of the land with the offspring of ____________, according to the ode.
(a) Horses
(b) Man
(c) Cows
(d) Fish

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Creon argues that ______________ would be insulted that Antigone decided to bury the body of Polyneices.

3. What did Antigone sprinkle over the body of her brother after the winds picked up at midday?

4. Man is considered to be the one who has ____________ animals, according to the content of the ode.

5. Man is the most awesome wonder in the _____________, according to the Chorus during the play.

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