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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Without ______________, he meets nothing that must come; only against Death shall he call for aid in vain.
(a) Resource
(b) A woman
(c) Love
(d) Rulers

3. Man also is the one who protects himself from the ____________, according to the content of the ode.
(a) Elements
(b) Lies
(c) Truth
(d) Animals

4. What is the punishment for burying the body of the soldier in defiance of the decree during the play?
(a) Stoning
(b) Poisoning
(c) Firing squad
(d) Hanging

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

6. Whose body is to be left out to be pecked and torn apart, without a proper military burial?
(a) Antigone
(b) Polyneices
(c) Eteocles
(d) Ismene

7. _____________ are many, and none is more important than man.
(a) Creations
(b) Disciples
(c) Wonders
(d) Animals

8. What did the guards do in order to determine who would deliver the news to Creon?
(a) Threw dice
(b) Drew swords
(c) Wrestled
(d) Drew straws

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

10. Creon shares that he will not show any ___________ in his rule nor will he patronize anyone.
(a) Fear
(b) Contentment
(c) Mercy
(d) Peace

11. How does Creon describe Antigone after she calls him a fool during her interrogation?
(a) Iron
(b) Stupid
(c) Just a woman
(d) Idiotic

12. Man turns the soil of the land with the offspring of ____________, according to the ode.
(a) Fish
(b) Man
(c) Horses
(d) Cows

13. Who answered the battle cry of Polyneices in the battle where he finally lost his life?
(a) Justinius
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Thebes
(d) Rome

14. Creon lets the people know that his position is __________ ordained and thus he is the rightful heir.
(a) Parentally
(b) Divinely
(c) Earthly
(d) Personally

15. Creon believes that because of Antigone's stubbornness, she will inevitably __________.
(a) Win
(b) Get her way
(c) Learn
(d) Break

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the person who tried to bury the body use in order to start to cover Polyneices up?

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

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

4. Eventually those who are evil will have to face truth and ______________ for their deeds.

5. Antigone claims she will be ready to face a/an _____________ death if she is caught in her actions.

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