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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Antigone's response to Ismene's reply when Antigone tells Ismene about her plan?
(a) She agrees and offers Ismene another option.
(b) She refuses, saying that it is the way things are meant to be.
(c) She leaves the room angrily.
(d) She disagrees and begins to pack.

2. Who is looking for Antigone in Part 2?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Polynices.
(c) Ismene.
(d) Oedipus.

3. What was Creon's former occupation?
(a) King of Thebes.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Chief advisor to the king.
(d) Servant to the king's advisor.

4. What is the character's name who introduces the other characters?
(a) Narrator.
(b) Interlocutor.
(c) The Chorus.
(d) Creon.

5. In Part 4, what does Creon intend to do to the guards after the discovery that Polynices's body has been disturbed?
(a) Punish them.
(b) Change their assignment.
(c) Have them executed on the spot.
(d) Fire them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Polynices is Ismene's ______________.

2. In Part 5, what reason does Creon give for making the ruling he did?

3. In Part 5, Creon explodes into a long speech and tells Antigone that she is just like who?

4. What are the guards assigned to do in Part 4?

5. What is distinctive about the item Antigone uses to bury Polynices?

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