View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Antigone reminds Ismene of family __________ when she tries to reason with her about her actions.
(a) Loyalty
(b) History
(c) Punishments
(d) Blood

3. Antigone states that Creon's law will never be __________ law, which is the law Antigone believes is important.
(a) Aphrodite's
(b) God's
(c) Her
(d) Rome's

4. Who interrogates the Sentry when he reveals the person who is responsible for burying the body?
(a) Creon
(b) The prophet
(c) Haemon
(d) Choragos

5. That __________ which neither sleep, the all-ensnaring, not the untiring months of the gods can master.
(a) Honesty
(b) Truth
(c) Power
(d) Spirit

Short Answer Questions

1. To what place does Creon believe that Antigone will go after her death for her actions?

2. Antigone claims she will be ready to face a/an _____________ death if she is caught in her actions.

3. What does the leader of the group call Polyneices when he is in the midst of battle? A wild __________ screaming.

4. The Chorus notes that it can see that generation is not ____________ by generation during the play.

5. What is the new tone of this group of citizens that is now speaking to the audience?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Creon believe is secondary to the general good of the people he now rules?

2. What are Antigone and Ismene commiserating about at the start of the story that drives the rest of the play?

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

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

5. Why does Creon say that Eteocles will receive a proper burial after his efforts in the battle?

6. What does Creon do in order to address the fears of the people when a new leader emerges?

7. How is the water image in this stansimon depicted, which is parallel to the ode's ideas about God's wrath?

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

9. What transpired between the two brothers, according to the Chorus in the play during this scene?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 555 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample