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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Antigone asks how she will be executed. What is the answer?
(a) Buried alive.
(b) Drawn and quartered.
(c) Stoned.
(d) Hung.

2. How does Antigone enter in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) She strides in angrily.
(b) She slips in through the window.
(c) She bangs the door open and runs in.
(d) She creeps in.

3. What is the final, tragic result of the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices in Part 1?
(a) They are both asassinated.
(b) Their father has them executed.
(c) They kill each other.
(d) A plague sweeps through the city, and they both die.

4. When Creon's wife is introduced, it is said that she will continue her task until what?
(a) It is her turn to kill herself.
(b) She finds the socks.
(c) She hears her husband's call.
(d) The bell tolls.

5. In the beginning of Part 5, Creon tells Antigone that she thinks he is above the law. What reasoning does he give for her impudence?
(a) She is becoming proud.
(b) She is not thinking.
(c) She is stubborn.
(d) She is Oedipus's daughter and his son's fiancee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Antigone fling at Ismene when they were children?

2. What is Jonas asking Antigone when the guards burst in?

3. What is the Nurse doing when she is introduced?

4. In Part 3, when Haemon is about to respond to all of Antigone's comments, what does she force him to do?

5. In Part 6, Creon tells Haemon that sooner or later, every man must accept what?

(see the answer key)

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