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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?
(a) Painting in the garden.
(b) Taking a walk without her chaperone.
(c) Visiting her secret sweetheart.
(d) Attending lessons without permission.

2. What happens to Oedipus?
(a) He attends a council meeting.
(b) He kills his sons in a rage.
(c) He flees the city.
(d) He dies.

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

4. In Part 2, what is one of the things Antigone says her family told her not to do?
(a) Run in the wind.
(b) Behave willfully.
(c) Marry for love.
(d) Go out without a chaperone.

5. What does Part 1 say about the play's setting?
(a) It has no geographical or historical implications.
(b) There is no mention of the play's setting.
(c) It is in a gloomy wood.
(d) It is in the south of France on the shore of the Cote d'Azur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the initial result when Eteocles refuses to honor the agreement with Polynices?

2. In Part 2, how does Antigone think her mother would feel about what she was doing?

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

4. How is the Nurse described in Part 1?

5. What is Antigone's nickname for the Nurse?

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