Antigone Test Review

What does the Chorus say happened right before

the play starts?

• Dionysus celebrated Polyneices’ death

• Eteocles and Polyneices killed their father

• Eteocles and Polyneices died in the battle of Thebes

• Creon killed Polyneices

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Why did Eteocles and Polyneices fight?

• Because Oedipus wanted it that way

• Eteocles wouldn’t allow Polynieces to become

  King

• Eteocles attacked Creon

• Polynieces blinded Tieresias

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What law (decree) does Creon create?

• No one should mourn for or bury Polyneices

• No one should mourn for or bury Eteocles

• No one should mourn for or bury Antigone

• No one should mourn for or bury Ismene

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Antigone defies Creon’s decree because she

• wants to overthrow him

• wishes to join her dead brother in the afterlife

• wants to die rather than marry Haimon

• believes in obedience to a higher law

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Which of the following best explains Creon’s motivation for making his decree that Antigone’s brother should go unburried?

• He believes the gods have commanded it

• He has a strong affection for Eteocles

• He does not want to honor a traitor

• He wants to harm the family of Oedipus

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Why doesn’t Ismene want to help her sister

Antigone bury their brother?

• Being a woman, she cannot challenge Creon

• She doesn’t like to break the law

• She blames herself for her brother’s death

• She feels he deserved to die

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Why does Antigone decided to bury her brother

despite Ismene’s refusal to help?

• Antigone wants to get back at Creon for killing

  her father

• Antigone wants to follow a higher law and die nobly

• Antigone feels Ismene will eventually come to help if she starts

• Antigone feels Creon is cursed

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What advice does Haimon give his father

• He tells Creon to kill Antigone

• He tells Creon not to listen to the citizens of Thebes

• He tells Creon to listen to the citizens of Thebes

• He tells Creon it is wise to be proud and should

  follow his own heart

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Creon originally promised a death by stoning as

the punishment for the burial but at the end he decides to put Antigone to death by_______________

• hanging her

• stabbing her

• running her over with a chariot

• burying her a live in a sealed vault

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Who is Teiresias?

• a blind prophet

• Creon's wife

• King of Thebes

• Oedipus' father

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