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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Creon believes that Antigone would have been trouble for Haemon both in and out of _________.
(a) His sight
(b) Their home
(c) The war
(d) Bed

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

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

9. Antigone still believes she has done no ____________ wrong and that Creon is the guilty one.
(a) Emotional
(b) Physical
(c) Wartime
(d) Moral

10. What was the result of the visitor who came to see the princess when she was locked up?
(a) A son
(b) A strong spell
(c) She died
(d) A curse

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

12. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?
(a) Her death
(b) Creon
(c) Her beauty
(d) Haemon's will

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

14. The Greek goddess of love much enjoys watching men's foolishness when it comes to ___________.
(a) Marriage
(b) Love
(c) War
(d) Family

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship that Haemon has with Antigone, according to the play?

2. Creon is delighted that Haemon's fascination with ____________ seems to be eroding during this scene during the play.

3. The Chorus compares Antigone to ___________, a princess who was imprisoned for an act she might commit.

4. What is Antigone's sentence as handed down by Creon as a result of her actions in burying the body?

5. The Chorus, as a result of the story it shares, laments the powerlessness of man over _____________.

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