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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 dark, thin girl.
(b) A bright, blond woman.
(c) An angel.
(d) An uncommonly beautiful creature.

2. When the characters are introduced in Part 1, their basic characteristics are given. What else is revealed about these characters?
(a) Their date of birth.
(b) Their current state of health.
(c) Their eventual fates.
(d) Their pets' names.

3. What did Antigone do to try to find out if Haemon really wanted her in Part 3?
(a) Wrote hm a love letter.
(b) Sent another woman in her place to see if Haemon would slip.
(c) Dressed in Ismenes clothes and makeup.
(d) Tried to seduce him.

4. In Part 3, for what does Antigone apologize to Haemon?
(a) Leaving before lunch.
(b) Calling him a weakling.
(c) Their quarrel the previous night.
(d) Breaking his watch.

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

6. What does Antigone make Haemon promise in Part 3?
(a) To never marry another woman.
(b) To take her with him when he goes away to war.
(c) That when she's finished saying what she has to say, he will walk away withough looking back.
(d) To love her as long as she is alive.

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

8. What does Ismene try to do when Antigone wants to discuss her plan in Part 2?
(a) Talk Antigone into getting someone else to do it.
(b) Convince Antigone that running away will solve nothing.
(c) Talk Antigone out of it.
(d) Tell Antigone that she will help.

9. In Part 3, when Haemon is about to respond to all of Antigone's comments, what does she force him to do?
(a) Think about what he's going to say before he says it.
(b) Stop crying.
(c) Leave.
(d) Kneel at her feet.

10. How is Haemon described in Part 1?
(a) Fun loving and sport loving.
(b) Adventurous and fickle.
(c) Boorish and uncommonly ugly.
(d) Dour and sapid.

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

12. What is Antigone wishing in Part 1?
(a) That her beloved was rich.
(b) That the rain would stop.
(c) That she didn't have to die soon.
(d) That her mother would let her go out by herself.

13. What is the final, tragic result of the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices in Part 1?
(a) A plague sweeps through the city, and they both die.
(b) They are both asassinated.
(c) They kill each other.
(d) Their father has them executed.

14. What was Creon's former occupation?
(a) Servant to the king's advisor.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Chief advisor to the king.
(d) King of Thebes.

15. What is the name of Antigone's dog?
(a) Puff.
(b) Huff.
(c) Fluff.
(d) Tuft.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the Nurse described in Part 1?

2. What happens to Eteocles's body in Part 1?

3. What does Prologue explain after the characters are introduced in Part 1?

4. When Creon's wife is introduced, it is said that she will continue her task until what?

5. Who is looking for Antigone in Part 2?

(see the answer keys)

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