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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonas do when Creon tells him what he is going to do to the guards for their lack of awareness in Part 4?
(a) Pleads for his life, saying he has a family.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Remarks on the cruelty of the king.
(d) Stands stoically and agrees.

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

3. In Part 4, the Chorus says there are four aspects of a tragedy. What is one of those aspects?
(a) Decidedly dolorous.
(b) Preening and dispicable.
(c) Clean and inevitable.
(d) Dirty and avoidable.

4. What does Antigone do in response to Creon's promise in Part 5?
(a) She turns her back on him.
(b) She tells him that she is not hungry.
(c) She tells him that it doesn't matter because she will just do it again.
(d) She begins to cry.

5. In Part 5, to what does Antigone say that Polynices is entitled?
(a) Rest.
(b) Equal treatment.
(c) Peace.
(d) A proper burial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Antigone finish what she is doing with Jonas at the end of Part 6?

2. In Part 4, what does the heat of the sun do?

3. After Haemon's conversation with Creon is over, what does Haemon do?

4. In Part 5, what does Creon do to Antigone after their discussion about how to kill her?

5. In Part 4, the Chorus says there are four aspects of a tragedy. What is one of those aspects?

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