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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antigone make Haemon promise in Part 3?
(a) To take her with him when he goes away to war.
(b) That when she's finished saying what she has to say, he will walk away withough looking back.
(c) To love her as long as she is alive.
(d) To never marry another woman.

2. In Part 4, how deeply was Polynices's body buried?
(a) A dusting of earth was placed over him.
(b) Just his feet and legs were buried.
(c) Just enough to keep the vultures away.
(d) Six feet deep.

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

4. Antigone tells Creon that she knew all along Creon would do what in Part 5?
(a) Kill her.
(b) Make her angry.
(c) Cause her and Haemon to break up.
(d) Be a father figure toward her.

5. In Part 5, Creon tells Antigone that she should go home and do what?
(a) Pack and leave.
(b) Pretend that she never had a brother.
(c) Get ready to mother Haemon's children.
(d) Tell the Nurse that she will never do it again.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the characters are introduced in Part 1, their basic characteristics are given. What else is revealed about these characters?

2. What does Part 1 say about the play's setting?

3. How does Antigone respond to the first thing that Creon asks her in Part 5?

4. In Part 2, what is one of the things Antigone says her family told her not to do?

5. In Part 2, how does Antigone think her mother would feel about what she was doing?

(see the answer key)

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