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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument was used to throw earth on Polynices's body in Part 4?
(a) A small child's shovel.
(b) A rotted piece of wood.
(c) A piece of a broken green bowl.
(d) A large stick.

2. In Part 6, what does the Chorus try to convince Creon to do?
(a) Let Antigone live.
(b) Put Antigone to death immediately
(c) Abdicate the crown.
(d) Let Antigone off with a warning.

3. Antigone asks how she will be executed. What is the answer?
(a) Drawn and quartered.
(b) Buried alive.
(c) Hung.
(d) Stoned.

4. Why can't Antigone finish what she is doing with Jonas at the end of Part 6?
(a) She breaks down sobbing.
(b) Jonas stops her.
(c) The guards come to take her away.
(d) She becomes confused.

5. In Part 6, Creon tells Haemon that sooner or later, every man must accept what?
(a) That the woman he loves may be deceptive.
(b) That his future is cut in stone.
(c) That fate holds the key, and there is nothing he can do to change it.
(d) That his childhood is over.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 4, who is Jonas?

2. In Part 6, what has happened to the palace?

3. In Part 6, after Haemon begs Creon to be courageous, how does Creon respond?

4. In Part 6, the Chorus tells Creon that Haemon has been what?

5. While the guards are discussing Antigone's capture, what does she ask of them?

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