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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the character's name who introduces the other characters?
(a) Narrator.
(b) Creon.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Interlocutor.

2. How is Antigone's sister described in Part 1?
(a) A happy, laughing girl.
(b) A voluptuous, ambitious girl.
(c) A quiet, shy girl.
(d) A dark, thin girl.

3. What does Creon say he is going to do in Part 4 in response to Polynices's body being covered?
(a) Change nothing.
(b) Double the guard detail.
(c) Have the guards shoot to kill.
(d) Leave the body out in the open while the guards hide to see who the perpetrator is.

4. How does Antigone respond to the first thing that Creon asks her in Part 5?
(a) She says that she has.
(b) She spits in Creon's face.
(c) She lies.
(d) She refuses to answer.

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 not thinking.
(b) She is stubborn.
(c) She is Oedipus's daughter and his son's fiancee.
(d) She is becoming proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antigone do when she is confronted in Part 2?

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

3. In Part 4, what does Creon say will happen to Jonas if he keeps quiet?

4. Polynices is Ismene's ______________.

5. In Part 3, Ismene urges Antigone not to what?

(see the answer key)

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