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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Creon say will happen if Antigone succeeds in burying Polynices?
(a) Her whole world will be destroyed.
(b) She will be arrested and put to death.
(c) His body will be burned uncermoniously.
(d) He will be exhumed.

2. In Part 5, Creon explodes into a long speech and tells Antigone that she is just like who?
(a) Her brothers.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

3. What is the reasoning that Creon gives for treating Polynices like he is?
(a) Polynices tried to keep him from being king.
(b) He's just an ordinary king doing his job.
(c) Polynices tried to assassinate him.
(d) He thinks that Polynices is a murderer.

4. How do the guards and Jonas bring Antigone in?
(a) They drag her.
(b) They carry her.
(c) They walk her.
(d) They shove her.

5. In Part 6, Haemon begs Creon to have the courage to be what?
(a) A fair king.
(b) The best king that Thebes could have.
(c) The loving father he knew as a child.
(d) A strong, faithful man.

6. In Part 5, to what does Antigone say that Polynices is entitled?
(a) A proper burial.
(b) Equal treatment.
(c) Rest.
(d) Peace.

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

8. While the guards are discussing Antigone's capture, what does she ask of them?
(a) If she will suffer.
(b) If they will let her go.
(c) If she can sit down.
(d) If she can speak with Ismene.

9. In Part 5, what does Creon say about Polynices and Eteocles?
(a) They were not leaders fit for the crown.
(b) They were good brothers to her.
(c) They killed their father to inherit the throne.
(d) They were heroes, but Creon must find a way to make a point.

10. In Part 4, the Chorus says there are four aspects of a tragedy. What is one of those aspects?
(a) It is tenuous and unrelenting.
(b) It is depressing and convoluted.
(c) It is simple and straightforward.
(d) It is uncomfortable.

11. In Part 6, Antigone begs Creon to do something about the problem in the palace so she can do what?
(a) Escape while he is preoccupied.
(b) Talk to Haemon.
(c) Talk to Ismene.
(d) Die in peace.

12. What was Jonas doing when he discovered Antigone covering Polynices's body?
(a) Getting tobacco.
(b) Reading.
(c) Talking to the other guards.
(d) Sleeping.

13. In Part 4, the Chorus says there are four aspects of a tragedy. What is one of those aspects?
(a) Decidedly dolorous.
(b) Preening and dispicable.
(c) Clean and inevitable.
(d) Dirty and avoidable.

14. Antigone asks Jonas to do something for her in Part 6. She tells Jonas that she would like this done when?
(a) Immediately.
(b) After she is dead.
(c) When they take her to be executed.
(d) After Ismene gets to the palace.

15. How does Antigone try to convince the guards to let her go?
(a) By saying that the guards misunderstood her actions.
(b) By begging.
(c) By screaming and crying.
(d) By using her rank as princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 5, what is the first thing that Creon asks Antigone?

2. What is Jonas asking Antigone when the guards burst in?

3. How does Antigone leave at the very end of Part 6?

4. Antigone tells Creon that she knew all along Creon would do what in Part 5?

5. In Part 4, what does Creon do in response to the guards telling him what Antigone has done?

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