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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. Thou, a ruler to whom ____________ brings not old age, dwellest in the dazzling splendour of Olympus.
(a) Peace
(b) Time
(c) Night
(d) Temptation

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

3. _________ supported the Thebans as he does not support the proud, like Polyneices and his army.
(a) Haemon
(b) Creon
(c) God
(d) Eteocles

4. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."
(a) The city
(b) The ground
(c) Heaven
(d) Hell

5. Eteocles fought for Thebes and thus he will receive a ___________________ after his death.
(a) Pension for his family
(b) Statue in his memory
(c) Book
(d) Full military burial

Short Answer Questions

1. Creon acknowledges that __________ is not transferable from one leader to the next. He must earn it.

2. Man is considered to be the one who has ____________ animals, according to the content of the ode.

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

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

5. That __________ which neither sleep, the all-ensnaring, not the untiring months of the gods can master.

Short Essay Questions

1. No matter the vicissitudes of life, what does the Chorus say man is held in?

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

3. What does the Chorus say about man and about his position in the universe?

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

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

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

7. What is the status of the battle at the start of the play, ANTIGONE?

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

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

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

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