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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Haemon tells his father than ____________ has nothing to do with being right or wrong.
(a) Love
(b) Age
(c) Justice
(d) Sex
2. The Messenger understands that the queen's _____________ might be too great for public display.
(a) Power
(b) Influence
(c) Happiness
(d) Grief
3. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?
(a) Her death
(b) Haemon's will
(c) Her beauty
(d) Creon
4. Who leads Teiresias into the court in order to see the King Creon and tell him some news during the play?
(a) A boy
(b) Sentry
(c) Messenger
(d) Ismene
5. Antigone still believes she has done no ____________ wrong and that Creon is the guilty one.
(a) Wartime
(b) Moral
(c) Emotional
(d) Physical
6. The Chorus compares Antigone to ___________, a princess who was imprisoned for an act she might commit.
(a) Danae
(b) Hecate
(c) Hera
(d) Niobe
7. Love has power over all mortals and _____________, according to the Chorus within this ode during the play.
(a) Gods
(b) Women
(c) Animals
(d) Immortals
8. Creon realizes that the tragedy is surely punishment from _________ and the pain is immeasurable.
(a) The prophet
(b) God
(c) His ancestors
(d) Himself
9. Creon believes he will be seen as stronger for refusing to yield to showing ______________ with Antigone.
(a) Patience
(b) Anger
(c) Gratitude
(d) Mercy
10. No ____________ can escape love, according to the Chorus within this scene.
(a) Mortal
(b) Immortal
(c) Man
(d) Woman
11. Creon believes that Antigone would have been trouble for Haemon both in and out of _________.
(a) The war
(b) His sight
(c) Bed
(d) Their home
12. What did the king discover about Antigone when he went to her vault where she was imprisoned?
(a) She was alive
(b) She was asleep
(c) She hanged herself
(d) She had escaped
13. What does Antigone believe that Creon should be found guilty of in relation to his reaction to her actions?
(a) Nothing
(b) Acting as a God
(c) Pride
(d) Ignorance
14. Haemon shares with Creon that the people see Antigone as ____________ for the actions she has taken.
(a) Reckless
(b) Wrong
(c) Despicable
(d) Honorable
15. Who does the new wife blind after the king imprisons the person as answered in #153?
(a) Her husband's two sons
(b) Herself
(c) Her husband's daughter
(d) Her husband's first wife
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Antigone's sentence as handed down by Creon as a result of her actions in burying the body?
2. What happened to the offering that the prophet made to the gods after the prophet heard strange sounds?
3. The Greek goddess of love much enjoys watching men's foolishness when it comes to ___________.
4. Creon believes that Antigone deserves nothing more than to find a husband in __________ after what she has done.
5. Why was the princess to which Antigone is compared locked up in a prison during the play?
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