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

2. How many captains were at the gates and were matched again during the battle?
(a) Eight
(b) Two
(c) Ten
(d) Seven

3. What is the color of the shield of Polyneices, according to the Chorus in this scene?
(a) Red
(b) Black
(c) Blue
(d) White

4. For that hope whose wanderings are so __________ is to many men a comfort, according to the Chorus.
(a) Eager
(b) Powerful
(c) Wide
(d) Straight

5. Whose body is to be left out to be pecked and torn apart, without a proper military burial?
(a) Antigone
(b) Eteocles
(c) Ismene
(d) Polyneices

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the other name for God that is used by the Chorus in this scene of the play and throughout the play?

2. "....the disappointment comes on one who knoweth nought till he burn his __________ against the hot fire."

3. Creon sees the rights of the _____________ as different for those who are good and those who are wicked.

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

5. Polyneices led the attack on his _____________ during that final battle before the play starts.

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