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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Creon's occupation?
(a) King of Thebes.
(b) Page.
(c) Court messenger.
(d) The king's treasurer.

2. What is Antigone's nickname for the Nurse?
(a) Her "dearest, darling Nurse."
(b) Her "second mother."
(c) She doesn't have one.
(d) Her "sweet red apple."

3. What is distinctive about the item Antigone uses to bury Polynices?
(a) He used to play with it as a child.
(b) It was part of the box Eteocles was buried in.
(c) It was part of a bottle Polynices carried with him.
(d) It was under Polynices's body.

4. What does Antigone do in response to Creon's promise in Part 5?
(a) She begins to cry.
(b) She tells him that it doesn't matter because she will just do it again.
(c) She turns her back on him.
(d) She tells him that she is not hungry.

5. What does Creon say will happen if Antigone succeeds in burying Polynices?
(a) She will be arrested and put to death.
(b) He will be exhumed.
(c) His body will be burned uncermoniously.
(d) Her whole world will be destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Antigone send to get coffee in Part 2?

2. Why is Jonas reluctant to do what Antigone asks of him?

3. How does Antigone enter in the beginning of Part 2?

4. In Part 4, what does Creon say will happen to Jonas if he keeps quiet?

5. In Part 6, what does the Chorus try to convince Creon to do?

(see the answer key)

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