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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ode 4 (Fourth Stasimon).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If you are to be weak in your allegiances, Creon says, make it to a ____________.
(a) Sentry
(b) God
(c) Man
(d) Woman

2. What is not one of the things that Antigone reminds the people of when she addresses the people of Thebes?
(a) Her royal ancestry
(b) Her beauty
(c) Her suffering
(d) Her innocence

3. Who interrogates the Sentry when he reveals the person who is responsible for burying the body?
(a) Creon
(b) Choragos
(c) The prophet
(d) Haemon

4. "For when a house hath once been shaken from _____________, there the curse fails nevermore."
(a) Heaven
(b) The city
(c) Hell
(d) The ground

5. Who informs the audience of the previous battle during this scene of the play?
(a) The sentry
(b) The Messenger
(c) The Chorus
(d) Antigone

Short Answer Questions

1. And through the future, near and far, as through the past, shall this ___________ hold good.

2. The Chorus states that they believe Antigone to be ____________, and neither illness nor war carries her to her death.

3. What is believed to be on Ismene and Antigone as a result of Oedipus and Jocasta's actions?

4. The Chorus does not condone ______________ or even the entertainment of such thoughts.

5. But some god strikes them down, and the race hath no __________________, according to the Chorus.

(see the answer key)

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