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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many generals does Eteocle plan to appoint to face their enemies?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

2. Who persuades his father-in-law to join with him and win the throne of Thebes by force?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Ismene.
(c) Laius.
(d) Eteocles.

3. The Chorus uses all of the following likening the destruction and violation of the city to the destruction and violation of a woman except:
(a) Physical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Moral.

4. The will of the gods are metaphorically represented by _________.
(a) The Ocean.
(b) The Sky.
(c) The Land.
(d) The Earth.

5. Who says, "When they are brave, they are insolent and intolerable, and when they are frightened, they are rash and dangerous?"
(a) Eteocles' soldiers.
(b) Polyneices.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Eteocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Antigone and Ismene related to Eteocles and Polyneices?

2. Wordless cries blend with poetic language telling the story of how Eteocles and Polyneices finally struck down ___________.

3. Who is "this one man most of all defended the city kept the ship steady?"

4. Men see the act of combat as _________.

5. In which fraction does the Chorus speak to Antigone and Ismene?

(see the answer key)

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