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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. Who leads Teiresias into the court in order to see the King Creon and tell him some news during the play?

2. When Choragos asks the Messenger about his depressing tone, who does the Messenger say has killed himself?

3. Who is the Greek goddess of love and of beauty, according to history and to the Chorus?

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

5. Antigone agrees that her father's ______________ guilt plagues all her family from the grave.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the goddess of love and of beauty who the Chorus thinks also enjoys watching the foolishness of man?

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The death of a brother has to be a terrifying ordeal for anyone to deal with, no matter the circumstances and the aftermath.

Part 1: Why do you think that Ismene isn't as concerned about Polyneices' burial?

Part 2: Why do you think Antigone feels so strongly that Polyneices be buried?

Part 3: Do you think Antigone was right in making the decision to bury Polynceices? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The main idea of this story is the idea of moral law versus man's law, with the obvious tilt toward moral law being over man's law.

Part 1: How does one even begin to define the idea of moral law? Can this even be measured? Why or why not?

Part 2: Why do you think that moral law is more revered than man's law?

Part 3: Which do you believe is more important - man's law or moral law? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Oedipus, though dead, is brought into the play as well at various times, as the curse of Antigone and of her life.

Part 1: Why do you think that the play brings the idea of Oedipus into the play?

Part 2: Do you think that someone's past can curse someone's present life? Why or why not?

Part 3: Do you feel sorry for Antigone in having the past she does with Oedipus? Why or why not?

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