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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part 2, Ismene says that Antigone behaves too __________.
(a) Hastily.
(b) Impulsively.
(c) Carefully.
(d) Rationally.

3. Who is looking for Antigone in Part 2?
(a) Ismene.
(b) Polynices.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Dionysus.

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

5. What is the initial result when Eteocles refuses to honor the agreement with Polynices?
(a) A new agreement is drawn up.
(b) The throne is ceded to a relative.
(c) A marriage is arranged.
(d) A war breaks out.

6. What does Nurse bring at the beginning of Part 3?
(a) A gallant friend.
(b) Coffee and toast.
(c) Her knitting.
(d) Ismene.

7. How is Haemon related to Antigone?
(a) He is her sister's fiance.
(b) They have no connection.
(c) He is her brother.
(d) He is her fiance.

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

9. What does Antigone say wards off evil in Part 2?
(a) Her sister's love.
(b) The Nurse's hands.
(c) Her lucky charm.
(d) Her mother's cross.

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

11. What does Antigone ask of Nurse when Nurse enters the room?
(a) To close the door on her way out.
(b) To treat her dog well.
(c) To take care of Ismene.
(d) To bring her toast and jam.

12. In Part 3, as Nurse is wondering what is wrong with Antigone, who enters the room?
(a) Haemon.
(b) Ismene.
(c) Creon.
(d) Polynices.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ismene try to do when Antigone wants to discuss her plan in Part 2?

2. In Part 2, what does Antigone say that she is not?

3. What happens to Oedipus?

4. In Part 2, Ismene tells Antigone that she is what?

5. What does Antigone feel like when the person who confronts her gets frustrated in Part 2?

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