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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the initial result when Eteocles refuses to honor the agreement with Polynices?
(a) A new agreement is drawn up.
(b) A war breaks out.
(c) A marriage is arranged.
(d) The throne is ceded to a relative.

3. Why isn't the boy alone on the side of the stage laughing and talking with the other characters?
(a) He is tasked with bringing news of Haemon's death.
(b) He is shy.
(c) His father forbade him to speak to people above his station in life
(d) He is listening intently to the conversation.

4. In Part 2, for what does the Nurse chastise Antigone and Ismene?
(a) For not respecting her.
(b) For making too much noise.
(c) For not having any common sense.
(d) For rising so early.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?

2. What is Antigone's plan in Part 2?

3. What is Antigone carrying in the beginning of Part 2?

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

5. What happens to Oedipus?

(see the answer key)

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