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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antigone feel like when the person who confronts her gets frustrated in Part 2?
(a) Mean.
(b) A cruel sister.
(c) A naughty brat.
(d) A little girl.

2. What is Creon's wife doing when she is introduced?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Brushing her daughter's hair.
(c) Practicing her lines.
(d) Looking for her husband's socks.

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 listening intently to the conversation.
(c) He is shy.
(d) His father forbade him to speak to people above his station in life

4. What does Antigone make Haemon promise in Part 3?
(a) That when she's finished saying what she has to say, he will walk away withough looking back.
(b) To love her as long as she is alive.
(c) To never marry another woman.
(d) To take her with him when he goes away to war.

5. What happens to Polynices's body in Part 1?
(a) He is left unburied for the vultures, vermin and insects to feed on.
(b) It is never found.
(c) t is hung on a tree to warn all who come to challenge the king.
(d) He is given an elaborate funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the characters are introduced in Part 1, their basic characteristics are given. What else is revealed about these characters?

2. Who is the youth alone on the other side of the stage?

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

4. In Part 2, what is one of the things Antigone says her family told her not to do?

5. Who is looking for Antigone in Part 2?

(see the answer key)

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