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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the agreement between Eteocles and Polynices?
(a) Eteocles would be named king.
(b) They would rule in alternate years.
(c) Polynices would be named king.
(d) They would go to war against Macedonia.

2. Whom does Ismene say needs Antigone?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Haemon.
(c) The dog.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

3. How is Antigone's sister described in Part 1?
(a) A happy, laughing girl.
(b) A quiet, shy girl.
(c) A voluptuous, ambitious girl.
(d) A dark, thin girl.

4. What does the person who confronts Antigone do when expressing her frustration?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Weeps.
(c) Screams in anger.
(d) Stalks out of the room.

5. In Part 3, Ismene urges Antigone not to what?
(a) Attempt what's beyond her strength.
(b) Delay the inevitable.
(c) Go to the castle without assistance.
(d) All answers are correct.

6. What does the person who confronts Antigone in Part 2 think Antigone was doing?
(a) Attending lessons without permission.
(b) Taking a walk without her chaperone.
(c) Visiting her secret sweetheart.
(d) Painting in the garden.

7. In Part 2, for what does the Nurse chastise Antigone and Ismene?
(a) For not having any common sense.
(b) For rising so early.
(c) For not respecting her.
(d) For making too much noise.

8. What is Antigone carrying in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) A large knife.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) The weight of the world.
(d) Her suitcase.

9. What did Haemon do in Part 3 that caused the quarrel between him and Antigone?
(a) Asked Antigone to elope with him.
(b) Told Antigone that he didn't love her.
(c) Wouldn't let Antigone in his house.
(d) Laughed at Antigone.

10. What happens to Eteocles's body in Part 1?
(a) He is given an elaborate funeral.
(b) It is hung on a tree to warn all who come to challenge the king.
(c) It is never found.
(d) It is thrown in the river like a piece of trash.

11. In Part 3, what did Antigone borrow from Ismene?
(a) Ismene's jewelry.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Ismene's dress.
(d) Ismene's makeup and perfume.

12. Polynices is Ismene's ______________.
(a) Cousin.
(b) Brother.
(c) Lover.
(d) Father.

13. When Creon's wife is introduced, it is said that she will continue her task until what?
(a) It is her turn to kill herself.
(b) She hears her husband's call.
(c) She finds the socks.
(d) The bell tolls.

14. In Part 2, how does Antigone think her mother would feel about what she was doing?
(a) Angry.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Proud.
(d) Disappointed.

15. How does Antigone enter in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) She bangs the door open and runs in.
(b) She strides in angrily.
(c) She creeps in.
(d) She slips in through the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, when Haemon is about to respond to all of Antigone's comments, what does she force him to do?

2. What is the character's name who introduces the other characters?

3. What does Antigone ask Haemon after her apology in Part 3?

4. In Part 2, Ismene says that Antigone behaves too __________.

5. In Part 2, Ismene tells Antigone that she is what?

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