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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonas do when Creon tells him what he is going to do to the guards for their lack of awareness in Part 4?
(a) Pleads for his life, saying he has a family.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Stands stoically and agrees.
(d) Remarks on the cruelty of the king.

2. Antigone says the Nurse is stronger than what in Part 2?
(a) Shadow.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) Fever.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

3. What does Antigone do when she is confronted in Part 2?
(a) Denies all accusations.
(b) Hints that the person who confonted her is correct.
(c) Openly admits where she was.
(d) Falls to the floor weeping.

4. What did Antigone fling at Ismene when they were children?
(a) Rotten apples.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Stones.
(d) Worms and mud.

5. In Part 2, for what does the Nurse chastise Antigone and Ismene?
(a) For rising so early.
(b) For not respecting her.
(c) For making too much noise.
(d) For not having any common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Haemon kill himself?

2. In Part 5, to what does Antigone say that Polynices is entitled?

3. What does Creon's wife do when she hears Haemon is dead?

4. When Creon asks where Antigone is going in Part 5, what does she say?

5. How is Haemon described in Part 1?

(see the answer key)

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