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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. The Chorus goes on to celebrate man as the ____________ of all beasts in the world during the play.
(a) Killer
(b) Keeper
(c) Master
(d) Owner

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

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

4. What is the relationship between Polyneices and Antigone in this play?
(a) Son and mother
(b) Cousins
(c) Nephew and Aunt
(d) Brother and sister

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Creon gives ____________ to anyone who contradicts the king's wishes concerning the burial during the play.

3. What else does the Chorus remind the audience that man is strong in?

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

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

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