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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Antigone described in Part 1?
(a) A bright, blond woman.
(b) An angel.
(c) An uncommonly beautiful creature.
(d) A dark, thin girl.

2. What did Haemon do in Part 3 that caused the quarrel between him and Antigone?
(a) Told Antigone that he didn't love her.
(b) Wouldn't let Antigone in his house.
(c) Asked Antigone to elope with him.
(d) Laughed at Antigone.

3. In Part 2, what does the person who confronts Antigone say in response to Antigone's reply about where she had been?
(a) That Antigone was raised carefully.
(b) That Antigone is different from her sister.
(c) That Antigone's mother would be disappointed if she were still alive.
(d) All answers are correct.

4. What is the Nurse doing when she is introduced?
(a) Winding wool.
(b) Dancing merrily.
(c) Scrubbing the nursery.
(d) Preparing the medicine tray.

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

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

7. What is Antigone's plan in Part 2?
(a) To bury Polynices.
(b) To marry the king.
(c) To run away.
(d) To elope.

8. After Haemon exits in Part 3, who comes in to talk to Antigone?
(a) Her mother's ghost.
(b) Ismene.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Polynices.

9. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?
(a) Visiting her secret sweetheart.
(b) Taking a walk without her chaperone.
(c) Painting in the garden.
(d) Attending lessons without permission.

10. What is the punishment for not following the king's orders about Polynices's body?
(a) Exile.
(b) Hard labor.
(c) Execution.
(d) A heavy fine and incarceration.

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

12. Polynices is Ismene's ______________.
(a) Lover.
(b) Brother.
(c) Father.
(d) Cousin.

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

14. What is the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices?
(a) They would rule in alternate years.
(b) Polynices would be named king.
(c) Eteocles would be named king.
(d) They would go to war against Macedonia.

15. Ismene tells Antigone that she should __________ Polynices like Polynices ____________ them.
(a) Love; loved.
(b) Bond with; bonded with.
(c) Forget; forgot.
(d) Watch; watched.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, why did Antigone say that she was telling Haemon all the things she was telling him?

2. What is Antigone wishing in Part 1?

3. In Part 3, when Haemon is about to respond to all of Antigone's comments, what does she force him to do?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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