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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. The Chorus notes that it can see that generation is not ____________ by generation during the play.
(a) Followed
(b) Eased
(c) Freed
(d) Spared

2. The ___________ accuse each other of being the one who buried the body illegally during the play.
(a) Guards
(b) Women
(c) Prisoners
(d) Chorus

3. Whose body is to be left out to be pecked and torn apart, without a proper military burial?
(a) Eteocles
(b) Ismene
(c) Antigone
(d) Polyneices

4. Polyneices led the attack on his _____________ during that final battle before the play starts.
(a) Father
(b) Own home
(c) Father's grave
(d) Sister's home

5. What is the one force from which the Chorus notes that man is not immune?
(a) Taxes
(b) Birth
(c) Disease
(d) Death

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Creon describe Antigone after she calls him a fool during her interrogation?

2. Without ______________, he meets nothing that must come; only against Death shall he call for aid in vain.

3. Creon shouts that the gods do not favor the ________ such as Polyneices who show them disrespect.

4. What army decided to attack Thebes, though they were driven back during their efforts during the play?

5. Who slew Polyneices during that final battle that caused him to be left without a proper burial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened the day before the opening of the play, according to the speakers in this scene?

2. In relation to man and to his frailty, the Chorus brings up the evil in having what?

3. What does Choragos have to say about Polyneices during the battle the previous day?

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

5. What does the decree of King Creon have to say about the burial of Antigone and Ismene's brothers?

6. What is the one force from which man is not immune, according to the Chorus in this part of the play?

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

8. What does Creon say about his position and his worthiness to be in such a position?

9. What does the Chorus praise when they are speaking in this section of the play?

10. What does the Chorus speak of in relation to the recent events of the story?

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