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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. Why is Creon apt to decide that the prophet has been telling him the truth about his situation?
(a) He is too tired to argue
(b) He sees a sign from Zeus
(c) He is getting pressure from the Chorus too
(d) The prophet has never been wrong

2. Choragos tells Creon that the gods are ___________ to him now during the play.
(a) Deaf
(b) Sympathetic
(c) Useless
(d) Listening

3. If you are to be weak in your allegiances, Creon says, make it to a ____________.
(a) Man
(b) Sentry
(c) Woman
(d) God

4. No ____________ can escape love, according to the Chorus within this scene.
(a) Immortal
(b) Man
(c) Mortal
(d) Woman

5. Creon is delighted that Haemon's fascination with ____________ seems to be eroding during this scene during the play.
(a) Ismene
(b) Antigone
(c) Oedipus
(d) Zeus

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Creon feel have always manipulated him, which is a sign of his own self pity for his situation?

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

3. Antigone compares her emotional state to that of the former queen of Thebes, _____________.

4. Antigone asks that all see her as a woman about to die, a woman who will never ____________.

5. Once offended, the Chorus states, gods and goddesses are without ____________ for the offending party.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Messenger have to say about fate at the start of this scene of the play?

2. What does Haemon come to say to his father, Creon, when he learns about Antigone?

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

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

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

6. What does Antigone ask all to see her as when she is standing in front of everyone?

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

8. Why does the Messenger answer the queen, Eurydice, with honesty rather than with lies?

9. What does the prophet tell Creon will happen if he goes through with his actions?

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

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