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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Antigone's execution to take place?
(a) In the palace courtyard.
(b) At the gallows.
(c) In an empty cave.
(d) In the town common.

2. Who confronts Antigone in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Polynices.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Ismene.
(d) Creon.

3. What do the guards wonder after they apprehend Antigone?
(a) What will happen to their wives.
(b) If there will be a reward.
(c) If they will now escape punishment.
(d) Why Antigone did what she did.

4. In Part 4, who is Jonas?
(a) One of Creon's advisors.
(b) One of Creon's sons.
(c) An significant member of the Chorus.
(d) One of the guards.

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) Fire them.
(c) Have them executed on the spot.
(d) Change their assignment.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the guards are discussing Antigone's capture, what does she ask of them?

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

3. What does Creon say he will do if Antigone does what he tells her to do in Part 5?

4. What did Haemon do in Part 3 that caused the quarrel between him and Antigone?

5. What is the Nurse doing when she is introduced?

(see the answer key)

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