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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was cursing Creon in their final moments on earth before they killed themselves?
(a) Eurydice
(b) Ismene
(c) Antigone
(d) Choragos

2. What is the relationship that Haemon has with Antigone, according to the play?
(a) He is her fiance
(b) He is her brother
(c) He is her son
(d) He is her cousin

3. Haemon tells his father than ____________ has nothing to do with being right or wrong.
(a) Love
(b) Age
(c) Justice
(d) Sex

4. Where was King Lycurgus imprisoned for offending a certain goddesses who preside over the people?
(a) The river
(b) A basket
(c) In stone
(d) A castle

5. Antigone compares her emotional state to that of the former queen of Thebes, _____________.
(a) Hecate
(b) Hera
(c) Niobe
(d) Aphrodite

6. Choragos tells Creon that the gods are ___________ to him now during the play.
(a) Deaf
(b) Listening
(c) Sympathetic
(d) Useless

7. Even though Creon believes himself to be right, he will not fight _____________.
(a) The prophet
(b) Choragos
(c) Destiny
(d) Haemon

8. Creon believes that Antigone deserves nothing more than to find a husband in __________ after what she has done.
(a) Hell
(b) Heaven
(c) Spain
(d) Rome

9. What was the result of the visitor who came to see the princess when she was locked up?
(a) A curse
(b) She died
(c) A strong spell
(d) A son

10. Antigone still believes she has done no ____________ wrong and that Creon is the guilty one.
(a) Physical
(b) Emotional
(c) Wartime
(d) Moral

11. What is Choragos no longer able to distance himself from when Antigone arrives in the room?
(a) Haemon's will
(b) Her beauty
(c) Her death
(d) Creon

12. Who visited the princess during her imprisonment for something she could do nothing about?
(a) Danae
(b) Zeus
(c) Hera
(d) Creon

13. Who gave Polyneices, the son of Oedipus, a proper burial at the end of this play?
(a) Antigone
(b) Creon
(c) Haemon
(d) Choragos

14. No ____________ can escape love, according to the Chorus within this scene.
(a) Man
(b) Immortal
(c) Woman
(d) Mortal

15. Haemon responds to Creon that his __________ is his guide and no marriage is worth losing that.
(a) Mother
(b) God
(c) Father
(d) Heart

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ starts to tear up at the sight of Antigone being led into the room during the play.

2. Who does Creon feel have always manipulated him, which is a sign of his own self pity for his situation?

3. Creon believes there is no greater evil than _____________ for that is what destroys households and nations.

4. Who goes to free Antigone and to bury Polyneices as the prophet said should be done?

5. Who leads Teiresias into the court in order to see the King Creon and tell him some news during the play?

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