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

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

3. Antigone knows that the men will praise her for burying her brother, but fear of ________ keeps their mouths shut.
(a) Her
(b) God
(c) Zeus
(d) Creon

4. What is the relationship between Antigone and Ismene, the two women at the start of the story?
(a) Lovers
(b) Cousins
(c) Sisters
(d) Friends

5. What happened at midday when the guards were watching the body that was not supposed to be buried?
(a) A fog rolled in
(b) The sun began to shine brighter
(c) It grew dark
(d) It began to storm

Short Answer Questions

1. Polyneices led the attack on his _____________ during that final battle before the play starts.

2. What is the relationship between Eteocles and Polyneices in the play, even though they fight each other?

3. Creon lets the people know that his position is __________ ordained and thus he is the rightful heir.

4. What did the guards do in order to determine who would deliver the news to Creon?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to men who are happy in their evil doings, according to the Chorus in this scene?

4. What does the sentry admit to Choragos when he is being questioned about the burial?

5. What does Creon caution against in the support of his decree about the burial rulings for the two men?

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

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

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

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

10. Why is the sentry interrogated by Choragos after he is also yelled at and threatened by Creon?

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