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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonas chat with Antigone about in Part 6?
(a) All the answers are true.
(b) Life in the barracks.
(c) His family.
(d) Rivalries between the officers and guards.

2. How does Antigone leave at the very end of Part 6?
(a) Crying and shaking.
(b) Calmly.
(c) Unwillingly.
(d) Fighting and screaming.

3. What does Ismene ask Antigone after Antigone says that she has considered all of the possible consequences of her proposed actions in Part 2?
(a) If Antigone really thinks her plan will work.
(b) If Antigone wants to go to breakfast.
(c) If Antigone doesn't want to live.
(d) If Antigone will leave Ismene her treasured brooch.

4. In Part 4, what does the heat of the sun do?
(a) Makes the guards sweat and complain.
(b) Cause the body to smell and make Jonas dizzy.
(c) Makes Jonas dizzy.
(d) Forces the guards to seek shelter.

5. Who are Eteocles and Polynices?
(a) Sons of King Oedipus.
(b) Men named as rulers of Thebes.
(c) Antigone's brothers.
(d) All answers are correct.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 6, Haemon begs Creon to have the courage to be what?

2. In Part 5, what does Creon do to Antigone after their discussion about how to kill her?

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

4. 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?

5. What instrument was used to throw earth on Polynices's body in Part 4?

(see the answer key)

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