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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chorus assures Antigone in her situation that she will have a peaceful ___________.
(a) Family
(b) History
(c) Death
(d) Afterlife

2. When Choragos asks the Messenger about his depressing tone, who does the Messenger say has killed himself?
(a) The prophet
(b) The sentry
(c) Creon
(d) Haemon

3. What did the king discover about Antigone when he went to her vault where she was imprisoned?
(a) She was asleep
(b) She had escaped
(c) She hanged herself
(d) She was alive

4. Love keepest the vigil on the soft cheek of a ____________, according to the Chorus in this section during the play.
(a) Man
(b) Goddess
(c) Maiden
(d) Crone

5. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?
(a) Creon
(b) Antigone
(c) Haemon
(d) Ismene

6. Antigone asks that all see her as a woman about to die, a woman who will never ____________.
(a) Live
(b) Laugh again
(c) See her sister again
(d) Marry

7. Once offended, the Chorus states, gods and goddesses are without ____________ for the offending party.
(a) Repercussions
(b) Power
(c) Justice
(d) Mercy

8. Where was King Lycurgus imprisoned for offending a certain goddesses who preside over the people?
(a) In stone
(b) A castle
(c) The river
(d) A basket

9. Who leads Teiresias into the court in order to see the King Creon and tell him some news during the play?
(a) Messenger
(b) Sentry
(c) A boy
(d) Ismene

10. No ____________ can escape love, according to the Chorus within this scene.
(a) Woman
(b) Immortal
(c) Mortal
(d) Man

11. The Chorus, as a result of the story it shares, laments the powerlessness of man over _____________.
(a) The Gods
(b) Justice
(c) Destiny
(d) Curses

12. Why was the princess to which Antigone is compared locked up in a prison during the play?
(a) A prophesy
(b) Defying the king
(c) Burying her sister
(d) A murder

13. _____________ starts to tear up at the sight of Antigone being led into the room during the play.
(a) Ismene
(b) Creon
(c) Haemon
(d) Choragos

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

15. The prophet goes on to tell Creon that he will be paid back _________________.
(a) Corpse for corpse
(b) With great poverty
(c) With a war to end all wars
(d) Ten times fold

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the focus of this ode in the play? What theme is being discussed during this section?

2. Creon believes he will be seen as stronger for refusing to yield to showing ______________ with Antigone.

3. If you are to be weak in your allegiances, Creon says, make it to a ____________.

4. The Greek goddess of love much enjoys watching men's foolishness when it comes to ___________.

5. Who was cursing Creon in their final moments on earth before they killed themselves?

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