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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship that Haemon has with Antigone, according to the play?

2. The Messenger understands that the queen's _____________ might be too great for public display.

3. Where was King Lycurgus imprisoned for offending a certain goddesses who preside over the people?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happened in the tomb of Antigone after Creon buried Polyneices properly?

9. To whom does this Chorus compare Antigone in this ode and why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the course of the play, there seem to be a number of characters who move back and forth between major characters, causing messages to be shared in directly.

Part 1: Why are the minor characters given the great tasks of sharing information with major players in the story?

Part 2: Why do you think that major characters don't speak to each other more directly during this play?

Part 3: How might the play be different if the action only focused on the major characters?

Essay Topic 2

Death is almost its own character in this story, appearing to advance the story as it unfolds.

Part 1: Why do you think that death is the only possible sentence for Antigone's crime?

Part 2: Why do you think that some of the characters felt that death was the only way to change the outcome of the story?

Part 3: How might the play have been changed if Haemon and the queen had not killed themselves?

Essay Topic 3

At various points of the story, it seems that characters already know what is to happen, even before it happens.

Part 1: Why do you think it's important to have this sort of foreshadowing in a piece of literature?

Part 2: Do you think it ruins a story to hint as to what might happen in the end?

Part 3: If the characters already know what's going to happen, why don't they do anything more to stop the hands of fate?

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