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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene Four .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the law state it was illegal to do with the dead man who fought against the state?
(a) Talk about him.
(b) Acknowledge you were related to him.
(c) Bury him.
(d) Think about him.

2. What does King Creon say the success of a state is measured by?
(a) The wealth of the state.
(b) The fatness and happiness of the people.
(c) The kinds of jobs people have.
(d) The number of children people have each year?

3. The play ends with Winston tearing off his wig and saying that he goes on to his “living death” (77) because he honored what?
(a) The things to which honor belongs.
(b) Nothing.
(c) His wife.
(d) The King.

4. How many miles was the drive from Rooihel to the ferry to get them to Robben Island?
(a) 5000.
(b) 250.
(c) 50.
(d) 500.

5. What did Antigone do to Polynices?
(a) She had him buried.
(b) She pretended she did not know him.
(c) She murdered him.
(d) She blamed him for her brother’s death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Winston react to John’s news in Scene Two?

2. When King Creon says that as King he symbolizes the State, how does Antigone respond?

3. What does Antigone say when King Creon asks if she knew what she did was illegal?

4. What feeling did John have while shoveling sand, which Winston said was exactly what Hodoshe wanted?

5. What is Winston doing at the end of Scene Three?

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