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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 the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices?
(a) Polynices would be named king.
(b) Eteocles would be named king.
(c) They would rule in alternate years.
(d) They would go to war against Macedonia.

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

3. How is Haemon described in Part 1?
(a) Fun loving and sport loving.
(b) Dour and sapid.
(c) Boorish and uncommonly ugly.
(d) Adventurous and fickle.

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

5. What does Antigone say wards off evil in Part 2?
(a) Her lucky charm.
(b) Her sister's love.
(c) The Nurse's hands.
(d) Her mother's cross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Oedipus?

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

3. What is Ismene doing in Part 1 when she is introduced?

4. What is the character's name who introduces the other characters?

5. What was Creon's former occupation?

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