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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. That _______, in turn, in brought low -- by the blood-stained dust die to the gods infernal.
(a) Peace
(b) Truth
(c) Hope
(d) Justice

2. And ___________, and wind-swift thought, and all the moods that would a state, hath he taught himself.
(a) Poetry
(b) Dancing
(c) Speech
(d) Fighting

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

4. The Chorus notes that it can see that generation is not ____________ by generation during the play.
(a) Freed
(b) Eased
(c) Spared
(d) Followed

5. Creon argues that ______________ would be insulted that Antigone decided to bury the body of Polyneices.
(a) Polyneices
(b) Eteocles
(c) Ismene
(d) Oedipus

Short Answer Questions

1. Man has even taught himself, according to the Chorus, to flee the arrows of the ____________.

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

3. Haemon insists that all men can learn from any who can ____________, when talking to his father.

4. The two men of cruel fate were born of one _____________ and one mother, according to the Chorus.

5. Creon says that Ismene should also be put to death as she is guilty of ____________ in the burial.

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