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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Oedipus?
(a) King of Thebes.
(b) A lonley old beggar.
(c) A man with no destiny.
(d) Creon's father.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Haemon do in Part 3 that caused the quarrel between him and Antigone?

2. Polynices is Ismene's ______________.

3. What does Nurse bring at the beginning of Part 3?

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

5. In Part 2, what does the person who confronts Antigone say in response to Antigone's reply about where she had been?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part 2, what is ironic about the conversation between the Nurse and Antigone?

2. What is represented by Antigone and Haemon's burial?

3. The Chorus is a parallel representation of the Chorus which was often used in Greek tragedy. Do you see any other representations characteristic of Greek tragedy within Part 1?

4. Why do you think the author chose to introduce Antigone and her sister, Ismene, as such contrasting characters? What purpose might this serve to the storyline?

5. What is the function of the Guardsmen? Consider their dialogue, their interaction with the "major" players, the Chorus' comments on them, and so on.

6. In Part 2, what does the Nurse and her ministrations represent to Antigone?

7. When the Chorus tells Creon that Haemon has been "mortally wounded" by Creon's indifference, Creon's response is that they all have. What does he mean by this statement?

8. What does the Chorus say about tragedy, and what significance does this have in Part 4?

9. What does Creon represent in Part 4?

10. Antigone's unfinished letter is a symbol of what?

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