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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chorus in this scene is a group of singers and dancers who are meant to represent the _____________.
(a) Conscience of Creon
(b) Fates
(c) Common man
(d) Mind of Antigone

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

3. What is the relationship between Polyneices and Antigone in this play?
(a) Son and mother
(b) Brother and sister
(c) Nephew and Aunt
(d) Cousins

4. Antigone points out to Creon that she is aware that __________ is inevitable for her, both now and in the future.
(a) Death
(b) Peace
(c) Happiness
(d) Glory

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

6. Creon realizes he still needs to prove his worth to the people as a _____________.
(a) Leader
(b) Friend
(c) Judge
(d) Fighter

7. Creon acknowledges that __________ is not transferable from one leader to the next. He must earn it.
(a) Love
(b) Loyalty
(c) Trust
(d) Peace

8. The ode implies that the woes of Antigone are directly related to her _____________, Oedipus.
(a) Father
(b) Cousin
(c) Son
(d) Prophet

9. How does Antigone respond when she is questioned by King Creon about her actions?
(a) She blames Ismene
(b) She denies nothing
(c) She says nothing
(d) She denies everything

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

11. What is the relationship between Eteocles and Polyneices in the play, even though they fight each other?
(a) Lovers
(b) Father and son
(c) Cousins
(d) Brothers

12. Whose decree proclaims that the body of the fallen man is not to be buried by anyone under punishment of death?
(a) Oedipus'
(b) Haemon's
(c) Choragos
(d) Creon's

13. Creon understands the problems of ______, yet elicits duty from them in their support of his decree.
(a) Women
(b) Age
(c) Men
(d) Warriors

14. What is the relationship between Antigone and Ismene, the two women at the start of the story?
(a) Friends
(b) Sisters
(c) Cousins
(d) Lovers

15. What was Antigone doing to the body of her brother when the guards rushed up to stop her?
(a) Burning it
(b) Singing to it
(c) Nothing
(d) Anointing it

Short Answer Questions

1. Creon shouts that the gods do not favor the ________ such as Polyneices who show them disrespect.

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

3. What does the leader of the group call Polyneices when he is in the midst of battle? A wild __________ screaming.

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

5. Thy power, O __________, what human trespass can limit? - the Chorus in this ode during the play.

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