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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. Haemon tells Creon, "It is not __________ never to yield to reason!" within their discussion of Antigone.
(a) Reason
(b) Possible
(c) Fair
(d) Difficult

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

3. The Chorus also speaks of the orderliness of kept __________ within a society during the play.
(a) Kingdoms
(b) Ideals
(c) Laws
(d) Relationships

4. Creon gives ____________ to anyone who contradicts the king's wishes concerning the burial during the play.
(a) No support
(b) Blessings
(c) Poison
(d) More taxes

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the Sentry admit is responsible for the burying of Polyneices?

2. If you are to be weak in your allegiances, Creon says, make it to a ____________.

3. And through the future, near and far, as through the past, shall this ___________ hold good.

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

5. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?

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