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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antigone ask of Nurse when Nurse enters the room?
(a) To close the door on her way out.
(b) To take care of Ismene.
(c) To treat her dog well.
(d) To bring her toast and jam.

2. Who is playing cards in Part 1?
(a) The King.
(b) Antigone.
(c) Three soldiers.
(d) The Messenger.

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

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

5. What is Creon's wife doing when she is introduced?
(a) Practicing her lines.
(b) Looking for her husband's socks.
(c) Brushing her daughter's hair.
(d) Knitting.

6. What is Antigone wishing in Part 1?
(a) That she didn't have to die soon.
(b) That her mother would let her go out by herself.
(c) That the rain would stop.
(d) That her beloved was rich.

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

8. What did Antigone do to try to find out if Haemon really wanted her in Part 3?
(a) Tried to seduce him.
(b) Dressed in Ismenes clothes and makeup.
(c) Sent another woman in her place to see if Haemon would slip.
(d) Wrote hm a love letter.

9. How is Haemon described in Part 1?
(a) Fun loving and sport loving.
(b) Boorish and uncommonly ugly.
(c) Adventurous and fickle.
(d) Dour and sapid.

10. In Part 2, what does Antigone say that she is not?
(a) Scared.
(b) Concerned.
(c) Happy.
(d) Beautiful

11. In Part 2, what does the person who confronts Antigone say in response to Antigone's reply about where she had been?
(a) That Antigone is different from her sister.
(b) That Antigone was raised carefully.
(c) That Antigone's mother would be disappointed if she were still alive.
(d) All answers are correct.

12. How is Antigone described in Part 1?
(a) A bright, blond woman.
(b) An uncommonly beautiful creature.
(c) A dark, thin girl.
(d) An angel.

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

14. Who are Eteocles and Polynices?
(a) Antigone's brothers.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Sons of King Oedipus.
(d) Men named as rulers of Thebes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, under what conditions does Ismene think Antigone will perform the task Ismene fears she will?

2. What is Creon's occupation?

3. Why isn't the boy alone on the side of the stage laughing and talking with the other characters?

4. What did Antigone fling at Ismene when they were children?

5. In Part 3, after Antigone explains everything to Haemon, what does she tell him is the only thing he can do to show her that he loves her?

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