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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the characters are introduced in Part 1, their basic characteristics are given. What else is revealed about these characters?
(a) Their current state of health.
(b) Their eventual fates.
(c) Their date of birth.
(d) Their pets' names.

2. What does Part 1 say about the play's setting?
(a) There is no mention of the play's setting.
(b) It is in the south of France on the shore of the Cote d'Azur.
(c) It has no geographical or historical implications.
(d) It is in a gloomy wood.

3. What does Ismene ask Antigone after Antigone says that she has considered all of the possible consequences of her proposed actions in Part 2?
(a) If Antigone doesn't want to live.
(b) If Antigone really thinks her plan will work.
(c) If Antigone wants to go to breakfast.
(d) If Antigone will leave Ismene her treasured brooch.

4. When Creon's wife is introduced, it is said that she will continue her task until what?
(a) She finds the socks.
(b) The bell tolls.
(c) She hears her husband's call.
(d) It is her turn to kill herself.

5. What is Antigone carrying in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) The weight of the world.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her suitcase.
(d) A large knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why isn't the boy alone on the side of the stage laughing and talking with the other characters?

2. In Part 2, what does Antigone say that she is not?

3. In Part 2, who does Ismene say dies for ideas?

4. What happens to Eteocles's body in Part 1?

5. What does Antigone feel like when the person who confronts her gets frustrated in Part 2?

(see the answer key)

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