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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is playing cards in Part 1?
(a) The Messenger.
(b) The King.
(c) Antigone.
(d) Three soldiers.

2. What is Ismene doing in Part 1 when she is introduced?
(a) Pretending she is alone.
(b) Asking Creon to accept her as a courtesan.
(c) Laughing and chatting with Haemon.
(d) Lamenting her eventual fate.

3. When Haemon enters, what does the Nurse do?
(a) Demands that he take off his shoes.
(b) Gives him a lecture about Antigone's purity.
(c) Stares at him angrily.
(d) Departs.

4. In Part 4, who is Jonas?
(a) An significant member of the Chorus.
(b) One of Creon's sons.
(c) One of the guards.
(d) One of Creon's advisors.

5. In Part 5, what does Creon do to Antigone after their discussion about how to kill her?
(a) Twists her arm and threatens to torture her.
(b) Takes her hand and tells her that he must do what he must do.
(c) Kisses her on the cheek.
(d) Grabs her by her hair and threatens to turn her over to the guards for their version of punishment..

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Haemon and Creon related?

2. What does Ismene say Creon has that will drag them to the scaffold?

3. What does Antigone make Haemon promise in Part 3?

4. What does Creon say he will do if Antigone does what he tells her to do in Part 5?

5. What happens to Polynices's body in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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