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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Chorus say the only thing left to do at the end of a tragedy is?
(a) Divide and conquer.
(b) Cry and wail in sorrow.
(c) Shout loudly about what death represents.
(d) Defend the righteous characters.

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

3. In Part 6, Creon tells Haemon that sooner or later, every man must accept what?
(a) That his future is cut in stone.
(b) That his childhood is over.
(c) That fate holds the key, and there is nothing he can do to change it.
(d) That the woman he loves may be deceptive.

4. How are Haemon and Creon related?
(a) Creon is Haemon's brother.
(b) Creon is Haemon's uncle.
(c) Creaon is Haemon's instructor.
(d) Creon is Haemon's father.

5. Who is Oedipus?
(a) A man with no destiny.
(b) A lonley old beggar.
(c) Creon's father.
(d) King of Thebes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the punishment for not following the king's orders about Polynices's body?

3. After Antigone asks Creon to kill her in a certain way, what does Creon say he wants to do?

4. What does Antigone say wards off evil in Part 2?

5. What do the guards wonder after they apprehend Antigone?

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