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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Antigone agrees that her father's ______________ guilt plagues all her family from the grave.
(a) Incestuous
(b) Godless
(c) Anarchistic
(d) Murderous

2. What is Antigone's sentence as handed down by Creon as a result of her actions in burying the body?
(a) Death by hanging
(b) Death by stoning
(c) Death by starvation
(d) Death by poison

3. Who is commiserating about the dominion of fate at the start of this final scene?
(a) Haemon
(b) Choragos
(c) Messenger
(d) Sentry

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

5. Creon believes there is no greater evil than _____________ for that is what destroys households and nations.
(a) Pride
(b) Anarchy
(c) Love
(d) Peace

6. Who does Creon feel have always manipulated him, which is a sign of his own self pity for his situation?
(a) Animals
(b) The Gods
(c) Women
(d) The prophets

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

8. Who was with Antigone in the tomb when Creon showed up to let her go?
(a) The prophet
(b) Ismene
(c) Haemon
(d) Eurydice

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

10. What happened to the offering that the prophet made to the gods after the prophet heard strange sounds?
(a) It was given back to him as an offering
(b) It disappeared
(c) It was refused
(d) It was accepted

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

12. The Chorus notes that even the powerful are not immune to ___________, as the wife could not let go of her sadness
(a) Fear
(b) Pain
(c) Happiness
(d) Grief

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

14. The prophet cautions Creon and the actions he has taken, saying that he is on the edge of __________.
(a) Doom
(b) Fate
(c) Happiness
(d) Mercy

15. Choragos tells Creon that the gods are ___________ to him now during the play.
(a) Useless
(b) Deaf
(c) Sympathetic
(d) Listening

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who visited the princess during her imprisonment for something she could do nothing about?

3. Who gave Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, a proper burial at the end of this play?

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

5. The Chorus states that they believe Antigone to be ____________, and neither illness nor war carries her to her death.

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