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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thou, a ruler to whom ____________ brings not old age, dwellest in the dazzling splendour of Olympus.
(a) Night
(b) Peace
(c) Time
(d) Temptation

2. Who is Choragos trying to get more active support from, pleading for this support as the Chorus would?
(a) Older men
(b) Younger residents
(c) Surrounding cities
(d) Women

3. Who returns to talk to Creon after he has been yelled at and threatened by Creon for speaking with him before?
(a) Messenger
(b) Sentry
(c) Boy
(d) Prophet

4. Antigone knows that the men will praise her for burying her brother, but fear of ________ keeps their mouths shut.
(a) Creon
(b) God
(c) Zeus
(d) Her

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

6. What kind of image is used to show the wrath that is passed on to future generations?
(a) Water
(b) Fire
(c) Air
(d) Earth

7. The Chorus notes that even in evil doings, man can be ___________, but there are consequences to these actions.
(a) Happy
(b) Angry
(c) Swayed
(d) Sad

8. Man has even taught himself, according to the Chorus, to flee the arrows of the ____________.
(a) Peaceful
(b) Wicked
(c) Frost
(d) Enemies

9. But some god strikes them down, and the race hath no __________________, according to the Chorus.
(a) Peace
(b) Ending
(c) Prosperity
(d) Deliverance

10. What is the new tone of this group of citizens that is now speaking to the audience?
(a) Happiness
(b) Compassion
(c) Hatred
(d) Fear

11. Antigone claims she will be ready to face a/an _____________ death if she is caught in her actions.
(a) Quick
(b) Easy
(c) Honorable
(d) Painful

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

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

14. What is the one force from which the Chorus notes that man is not immune?
(a) Disease
(b) Taxes
(c) Birth
(d) Death

15. What is the other name for God that is used by the Chorus in this scene of the play and throughout the play?
(a) Zeus
(b) Creon
(c) Apollo
(d) Mercury

Short Answer Questions

1. And _________, the eldest of the gods, the immortal, the unwearied, doth he wear...

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

3. The Chorus celebrates the slaying of the two men to be the ultimate __________ victory.

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

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

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