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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Chorus in this scene is a group of singers and dancers who are meant to represent the _____________.
(a) Common man
(b) Mind of Antigone
(c) Fates
(d) Conscience of Creon

2. What is the new tone of this group of citizens that is now speaking to the audience?
(a) Compassion
(b) Hatred
(c) Fear
(d) Happiness

3. Creon says that Ismene should also be put to death as she is guilty of ____________ in the burial.
(a) Complicity
(b) Helping
(c) Planning
(d) Distraction

4. _________ supported the Thebans as he does not support the proud, like Polyneices and his army.
(a) Creon
(b) Haemon
(c) Eteocles
(d) God

5. Man is the most awesome wonder in the _____________, according to the Chorus during the play.
(a) Earth
(b) City
(c) Universe
(d) God's realm

6. Eventually those who are evil will have to face truth and ______________ for their deeds.
(a) Punishment
(b) Justice
(c) Death
(d) Peace

7. Who was the captive of the Sentry, the person for which the Sentry was responsible during the play?
(a) Eteocles
(b) Ismene
(c) Haemon
(d) Antigone

8. What does the leader of the group call Polyneices when he is in the midst of battle? A wild __________ screaming.
(a) Bear
(b) Tiger
(c) Hawk
(d) Eagle

9. What is the punishment for burying the body of the soldier in defiance of the decree during the play?
(a) Hanging
(b) Firing squad
(c) Poisoning
(d) Stoning

10. Who is Choragos trying to get more active support from, pleading for this support as the Chorus would?
(a) Women
(b) Younger residents
(c) Surrounding cities
(d) Older men

11. Thy power, O __________, what human trespass can limit? - the Chorus in this ode during the play.
(a) Antigone
(b) Zeus
(c) Oedipus
(d) Creon

12. But some god strikes them down, and the race hath no __________________, according to the Chorus.
(a) Ending
(b) Deliverance
(c) Prosperity
(d) Peace

13. What is the one force from which the Chorus notes that man is not immune?
(a) Disease
(b) Taxes
(c) Death
(d) Birth

14. Who enters in order to announce to the king that someone has tried to cover up the body of Polyneices?
(a) The prophet
(b) Sentry
(c) Young boy
(d) Messenger

15. Antigone claims she will be ready to face a/an _____________ death if she is caught in her actions.
(a) Honorable
(b) Quick
(c) Painful
(d) Easy

Short Answer Questions

1. Creon believes that because of Antigone's stubbornness, she will inevitably __________.

2. What is the walled city that is featured in the actions of this story and drama?

3. What is the relationship between Polyneices and Antigone in this play?

4. Antigone points out to Creon that she is aware that __________ is inevitable for her, both now and in the future.

5. The Chorus goes on to celebrate man as the ____________ of all beasts in the world during the play.

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