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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even though Creon believes himself to be right, he will not fight _____________.
(a) Destiny
(b) The prophet
(c) Haemon
(d) Choragos

2. Who does the Messenger now call a walking dead man during the first part of this scene during the play?
(a) Choragos
(b) The prophet
(c) Creon
(d) Haemon

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

4. Choragos tells Creon to do as the prophet tells him to do as the justice of the __________ is swift.
(a) Gods
(b) Fates
(c) People
(d) Prophets

5. The Chorus states that they believe Antigone to be ____________, and neither illness nor war carries her to her death.
(a) Cursed
(b) Justified
(c) Honorable
(d) Wronged

6. The goddesses that King Lycurgus offended were NOT the goddesses who looked over ______________.
(a) Arts
(b) Mathematics
(c) Literature
(d) Sciences

7. What is the focus of this ode in the play? What theme is being discussed during this section?
(a) Pride
(b) Love
(c) Friendship
(d) War

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

9. Creon believes he will be seen as stronger for refusing to yield to showing ______________ with Antigone.
(a) Gratitude
(b) Anger
(c) Mercy
(d) Patience

10. The Chorus talks about love's strength and destruction, such as it is between Creon and ____________.
(a) Antigone
(b) Eurydice
(c) Haemon
(d) Ismene

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

12. When talking to Haemon, Creon insists that ____________ has no right to tell him how to rule.
(a) Haemon
(b) The city
(c) The God
(d) The Chorus

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

14. The Messenger understands that the queen's _____________ might be too great for public display.
(a) Grief
(b) Happiness
(c) Influence
(d) Power

15. Where is Antigone led to after she has been given her sentence by Creon, the King?
(a) The fields
(b) The bathroom
(c) The vault
(d) A platform

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was the princess to which Antigone is compared locked up in a prison during the play?

4. The prophet cautions Creon and the actions he has taken, saying that he is on the edge of __________.

5. Why is Creon apt to decide that the prophet has been telling him the truth about his situation?

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