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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. _________ supported the Thebans as he does not support the proud, like Polyneices and his army.
(a) Creon
(b) God
(c) Haemon
(d) Eteocles

2. Creon says that Ismene should also be put to death as she is guilty of ____________ in the burial.
(a) Distraction
(b) Complicity
(c) Planning
(d) Helping

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

4. The Chorus compares Antigone to ___________, a princess who was imprisoned for an act she might commit.
(a) Hecate
(b) Danae
(c) Hera
(d) Niobe

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What else does the Chorus remind the audience that man is strong in?

2. Ismene feels powerless as a __________ at the start of the story, in addition to her family background.

3. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."

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

5. Man is the most awesome wonder in the _____________, according to the Chorus during the play.

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