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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ode 3 (Third Stasimon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Creon lets the people know that his position is __________ ordained and thus he is the rightful heir.
(a) Personally
(b) Earthly
(c) Parentally
(d) Divinely

2. Antigone knows that the men will praise her for burying her brother, but fear of ________ keeps their mouths shut.
(a) Creon
(b) Her
(c) God
(d) Zeus

3. Creon is told by ______________ that trees and ships yield to the destructive nature of floods.
(a) Haemon
(b) Antigone
(c) Choragos
(d) Ismene

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

5. Antigone states that Creon's law will never be __________ law, which is the law Antigone believes is important.
(a) Rome's
(b) Her
(c) God's
(d) Aphrodite's

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ismene compliment Antigone on before she leaves her to herself and to her actions?

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

3. Creon is delighted that Haemon's fascination with ____________ seems to be eroding during this scene during the play.

4. Nothing that is cast enters into the life of mortals without a ____________, according to the Chorus.

5. But some god strikes them down, and the race hath no __________________, according to the Chorus.

(see the answer key)

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