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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?
(a) Painting in the garden.
(b) Visiting her secret sweetheart.
(c) Taking a walk without her chaperone.
(d) Attending lessons without permission.

2. What does Ismene say Creon has that will drag them to the scaffold?
(a) An army of hundreds.
(b) A strong, black stallion.
(c) A mob of thousands of arms and eyes.
(d) A wooden cart full of straw.

3. What is the punishment for not following the king's orders about Polynices's body?
(a) A heavy fine and incarceration.
(b) Hard labor.
(c) Execution.
(d) Exile.

4. Who is looking for Antigone in Part 2?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Ismene.
(d) Polynices.

5. In Part 2, for what does the Nurse chastise Antigone and Ismene?
(a) For not having any common sense.
(b) For not respecting her.
(c) For rising so early.
(d) For making too much noise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Antigone's response to Ismene's reply when Antigone tells Ismene about her plan?

2. Who is Oedipus?

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

4. When Creon's wife is introduced, it is said that she will continue her task until what?

5. What is Creon's wife doing when she is introduced?

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