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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Haemon insists that all men can learn from any who can ____________, when talking to his father.
(a) Love
(b) Teach
(c) Reason
(d) Grow

4. Haemon shares with Creon that the people see Antigone as ____________ for the actions she has taken.
(a) Reckless
(b) Wrong
(c) Despicable
(d) Honorable

5. Who goes to free Antigone and to bury Polyneices as the prophet said should be done?
(a) Creon
(b) The boy
(c) Haemon
(d) Choragos

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

7. The Chorus compares Antigone to ___________, a princess who was imprisoned for an act she might commit.
(a) Niobe
(b) Hecate
(c) Hera
(d) Danae

8. Haemon responds to Creon that his __________ is his guide and no marriage is worth losing that.
(a) God
(b) Mother
(c) Father
(d) Heart

9. Creon is delighted that Haemon's fascination with ____________ seems to be eroding during this scene during the play.
(a) Oedipus
(b) Ismene
(c) Antigone
(d) Zeus

10. The prophet tells Creon he has kept Polyneices from ____________ and buried Antigone alive.
(a) The truth
(b) His family
(c) The gods
(d) His sister

11. Antigone compares her emotional state to that of the former queen of Thebes, _____________.
(a) Aphrodite
(b) Hera
(c) Niobe
(d) Hecate

12. Creon believes that Antigone deserves nothing more than to find a husband in __________ after what she has done.
(a) Heaven
(b) Rome
(c) Spain
(d) Hell

13. What does Antigone believe that Creon should be found guilty of in relation to his reaction to her actions?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Acting as a God
(c) Nothing
(d) Pride

14. Haemon tells his father than ____________ has nothing to do with being right or wrong.
(a) Sex
(b) Justice
(c) Love
(d) Age

15. Who gave Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, a proper burial at the end of this play?
(a) Haemon
(b) Antigone
(c) Creon
(d) Choragos

Short Answer Questions

1. Should the proud have survived to old age, notes Choragos, they will have learned to be _________.

2. Choragos tells Creon that the gods are ___________ to him now during the play.

3. Who does the Messenger now call a walking dead man during the first part of this scene during the play?

4. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?

5. Who is the Greek goddess of love and of beauty, according to history and to the Chorus?

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