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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is believed to be on Ismene and Antigone as a result of Oedipus and Jocasta's actions?
(a) Curse
(b) A burden of making things right
(c) Genetic disease
(d) Blessing

2. Who is the leader of the group who is telling the story within this section of the play?
(a) Antigone
(b) Creon
(c) Choragos
(d) Haemon

3. The Chorus points out the evil that is in _________ especially in relation to the situation with Antigone and Creon.
(a) Punishment
(b) Peace
(c) Power
(d) Pride

4. Man is held in _________ for his stamina and his spirit, no matter what other things he might do.
(a) Awe
(b) Fear
(c) Contempt
(d) Rage

5. The Chorus notes that even in evil doings, man can be ___________, but there are consequences to these actions.
(a) Swayed
(b) Sad
(c) Angry
(d) Happy

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose decree proclaims that the body of the fallen man is not to be buried by anyone under punishment of death?

2. The Chorus in this scene is a group of singers and dancers who are meant to represent the _____________.

3. Who returns to talk to Creon after he has been yelled at and threatened by Creon for speaking with him before?

4. _________ supported the Thebans as he does not support the proud, like Polyneices and his army.

5. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Creon's ideas about loyalty when it comes to ruling the people of Thebes?

2. Why did the sentry not intend to come back to speak to the king about what he knew about Antigone?

3. What does Antigone have to say when Creon states that she defied the law about burying her brother?

4. Why does God support the Theban warriors during the battle that took place prior to the start of the play?

5. What will happen to Polyneices' body after he was killed during the battle?

6. What did Antigone do after the winds picked up and darkness fell, after she cried over the body of her brother?

7. Who informs the audience of the battle that precipitated the previous scene of the play?

8. What are Choragos and the Chorus meant to represent during the rest of the play?

9. What is man said to be the Master of when the Chorus speaks of man in this section of the play?

10. To whom does this ode of the play attribute most of Antigone's problems?

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