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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 is the handicap of Teiresias, the prophet, who comes to speak to Creon during the play?
(a) Blind
(b) Mute
(c) One leg
(d) Deaf

2. What happened to the offering that the prophet made to the gods after the prophet heard strange sounds?
(a) It was given back to him as an offering
(b) It was accepted
(c) It was refused
(d) It disappeared

3. What is the relationship that Haemon has with Antigone, according to the play?
(a) He is her son
(b) He is her fiance
(c) He is her brother
(d) He is her cousin

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

5. Who does the Messenger now call a walking dead man during the first part of this scene during the play?
(a) Haemon
(b) The prophet
(c) Creon
(d) Choragos

Short Answer Questions

1. Choragos tells Creon to do as the prophet tells him to do as the justice of the __________ is swift.

2. The Chorus, as a result of the story it shares, laments the powerlessness of man over _____________.

3. Haemon tells Creon, "It is not __________ never to yield to reason!" within their discussion of Antigone.

4. The Chorus notes that even the powerful are not immune to ___________, as the wife could not let go of her sadness

5. No ____________ can escape love, according to the Chorus within this scene.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the Chorus elaborate on when it comes to love and its role in the relationship of Haemon and Creon?

3. Why was King Lycurgus, Dyras' son, imprisoned in stone, according to the Chorus in this ode?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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