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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose arrival does Choragos announce at the beginning of the scene in the play?
(a) Antigone
(b) Creon
(c) Haemon
(d) Ismene

2. Who is the Greek goddess of love and of beauty, according to history and to the Chorus?
(a) Venus
(b) Helen of Troy
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Hera

3. The Messenger understands that the queen's _____________ might be too great for public display.
(a) Power
(b) Influence
(c) Grief
(d) Happiness

4. Haemon tells Creon, "It is not __________ never to yield to reason!" within their discussion of Antigone.
(a) Difficult
(b) Fair
(c) Possible
(d) Reason

5. The Chorus compares Antigone to ___________, a princess who was imprisoned for an act she might commit.
(a) Hecate
(b) Hera
(c) Niobe
(d) Danae

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of the visitor who came to see the princess when she was locked up?

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

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

4. Creon believes he will be seen as stronger for refusing to yield to showing ______________ with Antigone.

5. Choragos tells Creon to do as the prophet tells him to do as the justice of the __________ is swift.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Creon happy that Haemon's fascination with Antigone seems to be fading?

2. When did Teiresias make an offering to the gods, he tells Creon, that was then refused?

3. What does Creon feel about prophets and what they have done to him in the past?

4. What is Choragos' reaction when Antigone is brought before Creon at the start of this scene?

5. Who is the goddess of love and of beauty who the Chorus thinks also enjoys watching the foolishness of man?

6. What happened in the tomb of Antigone after Creon buried Polyneices properly?

7. What does the prophet tell Creon when he enters the room, led by the boy into the court?

8. What is the other story of jealousy that the Chorus relates to the audience within this ode, regarding the king and his first wife?

9. What does this ode praise within the story and within the story of mankind as a whole?

10. To whom does this Chorus compare Antigone in this ode and why?

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