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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. What was the result of the visitor who came to see the princess when she was locked up?
(a) She died
(b) A son
(c) A curse
(d) A strong spell

2. Who leads Teiresias into the court in order to see the King Creon and tell him some news during the play?
(a) Sentry
(b) A boy
(c) Ismene
(d) Messenger

3. What is the focus of this ode in the play? What theme is being discussed during this section?
(a) Friendship
(b) Love
(c) War
(d) Pride

4. Love has power over all mortals and _____________, according to the Chorus within this ode during the play.
(a) Animals
(b) Women
(c) Immortals
(d) Gods

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the new wife blind after the king imprisons the person as answered in #153?

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

3. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?

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

5. Creon is delighted that Haemon's fascination with ____________ seems to be eroding during this scene during the play.

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom does Antigone compare her emotional state during her time before Creon?

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

3. Why is Creon happy that Haemon's fascination with Antigone seems to be fading?

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

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

6. What does the prophet tell Creon when he enters the room, led by the boy into the court?

7. What does Antigone believe plagues her and all her family from the grave?

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

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

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

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