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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the guards are discussing Antigone's capture, what does she ask of them?
(a) If she can sit down.
(b) If they will let her go.
(c) If she can speak with Ismene.
(d) If she will suffer.

2. In Part 5, what is the first thing that Creon asks Antigone?
(a) If she was willing to apologize for what she did.
(b) If she is crazy.
(c) Why she did what she did.
(d) If anyone else knew what she was doing.

3. In Part 2, what does Antigone tell Ismene that she should not forgo?
(a) Her prayers.
(b) Her breakfast.
(c) Her beauty sleep.
(d) Her chores.

4. What does Ismene say she can't do in Part 3?
(a) Believe that Haemon wants to marry Antigone.
(b) Find the brooch Antigone was asking for.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Sleep.

5. When Creon tells Antigone to leave, why does Creon stop her in Part 5?
(a) He can see that she is not going to her room.
(b) He thinks that she is going to commit suicide.
(c) He wants to tell her that she needs to leave Haemon.
(d) He wants to extract a written promise from her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, why does Antigone ask Creon to kill her in a certain way?

2. In Part 2, Ismene tells Antigone that she is what?

3. What is the final, tragic result of the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices in Part 1?

4. What is distinctive about the item Antigone uses to bury Polynices?

5. In Part 6, the Chorus tells Creon that Haemon has been what?

(see the answer key)

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