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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ode 4 (Fourth Stasimon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the focus of this ode in the play? What theme is being discussed during this section?
(a) Love
(b) Friendship
(c) War
(d) Pride

2. Antigone compares her emotional state to that of the former queen of Thebes, _____________.
(a) Hecate
(b) Hera
(c) Niobe
(d) Aphrodite

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

4. Who is the leader of the group who is telling the story within this section of the play?
(a) Creon
(b) Haemon
(c) Choragos
(d) Antigone

5. "....the disappointment comes on one who knoweth nought till he burn his __________ against the hot fire."
(a) Head
(b) Foot
(c) Hand
(d) Arm

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?

2. When talking to Haemon, Creon insists that ____________ has no right to tell him how to rule.

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

4. What is not one of the things that Antigone reminds the people of when she addresses the people of Thebes?

5. Without ______________, he meets nothing that must come; only against Death shall he call for aid in vain.

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