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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between Antigone and Ismene, the two women at the start of the story?
(a) Sisters
(b) Cousins
(c) Friends
(d) Lovers

2. What is Antigone's sentence as handed down by Creon as a result of her actions in burying the body?
(a) Death by starvation
(b) Death by stoning
(c) Death by poison
(d) Death by hanging

3. The Chorus points out the evil that is in _________ especially in relation to the situation with Antigone and Creon.
(a) Power
(b) Punishment
(c) Peace
(d) Pride

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

5. Creon lets the people know that his position is __________ ordained and thus he is the rightful heir.
(a) Parentally
(b) Divinely
(c) Personally
(d) Earthly

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the person who tried to bury the body use in order to start to cover Polyneices up?

2. The ode implies that the woes of Antigone are directly related to her _____________, Oedipus.

3. Antigone compares her emotional state to that of the former queen of Thebes, _____________.

4. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?

5. The two men of cruel fate were born of one _____________ and one mother, according to the Chorus.

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