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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 talks about love's strength and destruction, such as it is between Creon and ____________.
(a) Eurydice
(b) Haemon
(c) Antigone
(d) Ismene

2. The prophet goes on to tell Creon that he will be paid back _________________.
(a) Corpse for corpse
(b) With great poverty
(c) Ten times fold
(d) With a war to end all wars

3. Haemon tells Creon, "It is not __________ never to yield to reason!" within their discussion of Antigone.
(a) Fair
(b) Reason
(c) Difficult
(d) Possible

4. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?
(a) Creon
(b) Ismene
(c) Haemon
(d) Antigone

5. What is Antigone's sentence as handed down by Creon as a result of her actions in burying the body?
(a) Death by starvation
(b) Death by stoning
(c) Death by poison
(d) Death by hanging

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was the princess to which Antigone is compared locked up in a prison during the play?

2. Choragos tells Creon that the gods are ___________ to him now during the play.

3. The Chorus states that they believe Antigone to be ____________, and neither illness nor war carries her to her death.

4. What happened to the offering that the prophet made to the gods after the prophet heard strange sounds?

5. The goddesses that King Lycurgus offended were NOT the goddesses who looked over ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does love have the power over, according to this ode in the play?

2. What does the Messenger say about the grief that the queen must be feeling after the events which took place?

3. What does this ode praise within the story and within the story of mankind as a whole?

4. When did Teiresias make an offering to the gods, he tells Creon, that was then refused?

5. What does the Chorus lament in relation to Antigone's story and to the story of the princess?

6. Why does Creon believe he will be seen as even more powerful than he is now?

7. What does Creon feel about prophets and what they have done to him in the past?

8. What does Creon pity in some men after talking with Haemon about their relationship?

9. What is the other story of jealousy that the Chorus relates to the audience within this ode, regarding the king and his first wife?

10. What is Choragos' reaction when Antigone is brought before Creon at the start of this scene?

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