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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Creon asks where Antigone is going in Part 5, what does she say?
(a) She tells him that she is going back to bed.
(b) She tells him that she is going to talk to Haemon.
(c) She tells him that it is none of his business.
(d) She tells him that he knows.

2. What does Jonas chat with Antigone about in Part 6?
(a) Rivalries between the officers and guards.
(b) All the answers are true.
(c) Life in the barracks.
(d) His family.

3. Where is Antigone's execution to take place?
(a) At the gallows.
(b) In the town common.
(c) In the palace courtyard.
(d) In an empty cave.

4. What do the guards wonder after they apprehend Antigone?
(a) What will happen to their wives.
(b) If they will now escape punishment.
(c) Why Antigone did what she did.
(d) If there will be a reward.

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

6. What does Antigone do in response to Creon's promise in Part 5?
(a) She tells him that she is not hungry.
(b) She tells him that it doesn't matter because she will just do it again.
(c) She turns her back on him.
(d) She begins to cry.

7. What are the guards assigned to do in Part 4?
(a) Keep asassins out of the castle.
(b) Keep interlopers out of the courtyard.
(c) Watch over the king's family.
(d) Watch over Polynices's body.

8. In Part 6, what does Antigone ask Jonas to do for her?
(a) Deliver a letter.
(b) Say a prayer for her.
(c) Keep her sister away.
(d) Remove her shackles.

9. What does the Chorus remind Creon about Antigone in Part 6?
(a) Her sister needs her since the rest of the family is dead.
(b) She is loyal to her family.
(c) She has a point.
(d) She is just a child.

10. In Part 4, the Chorus says there are four aspects of a tragedy. What is one of those aspects?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Restful because there is no hope.
(c) Sad and disingenuous.
(d) Mind numbing yet joyous.

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

12. Antigone tells Creon that she knew all along Creon would do what in Part 5?
(a) Be a father figure toward her.
(b) Cause her and Haemon to break up.
(c) Make her angry.
(d) Kill her.

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

14. 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 Ismene.
(c) Die in peace.
(d) Talk to Haemon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Haemon's conversation with Creon is over, what does Haemon do?

2. What does the Chorus say the only thing left to do at the end of a tragedy is?

3. Antigone asks how she will be executed. What is the answer?

4. Why can't Antigone finish what she is doing with Jonas at the end of Part 6?

5. What does Jonas say in response to Creon's accusations in Part 4?

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