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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who confronts Antigone in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Polynices.
(c) Ismene.
(d) Creon.

3. What is Antigone's response to Ismene's reply when Antigone tells Ismene about her plan?
(a) She disagrees and begins to pack.
(b) She refuses, saying that it is the way things are meant to be.
(c) She agrees and offers Ismene another option.
(d) She leaves the room angrily.

4. What does Ismene try to do when Antigone wants to discuss her plan in Part 2?
(a) Talk Antigone into getting someone else to do it.
(b) Convince Antigone that running away will solve nothing.
(c) Talk Antigone out of it.
(d) Tell Antigone that she will help.

5. What happens to Oedipus?
(a) He attends a council meeting.
(b) He flees the city.
(c) He kills his sons in a rage.
(d) He dies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Part 1 say about the play's setting?

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

4. Who is playing cards in Part 1?

5. In Part 2, how does Antigone think her mother would feel about what she was doing?

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