Antigone

Antigone asks Ismene to help her

• to escape to Thebes
• to bury Polynices' body

• to start an armed revolt against Creon
• to accept their fate

Creon is

• a failed applicant to the Academy at Sparta

• the new king of Thebes because Oedipus has died, and Antigone's uncle

• Antigone's fiance

• the oldest man in Athens

Antigone's two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices,

• were the greatest runner and discus thrower at the Olympic games

• have been pursued by the Furies for eating their mother's flesh

• spied Artemis bathing and were devoured by their own dogs

• fought on opposite sides in a war for power in Thebes and killed each other in battle.

Antigone's father was

• Zeus, king of the gods and ruler of Olympus
• Creon, new king of Thebes and decorated defender of Greece
• Oedipus, ill-fated king who murdered his father and married his mother
• Apollo, god of music and the power behind the Oracle of Delphi

Whom does Creon refuse to bury? 

• Ismene
• Eteocles
• Eurydice
• Polynices

Antigone was determined to bury Polynices because

• he was her favorite brother

• she felt it was her religious duty to obey the gods' law, and she loved her brother(s)

• she wanted to make Creon mad

• she was bored

 Whose laws does Antigone say she follows? 

• The gods'
• Oedipus'
• her own
• Creon's

What angers Antigone at the beginning of the play? 

• The elders of Thebes honor Eteocles
• Creon refuses to hear her complaints
• Polynices attacks Thebes and kills Eteocles

• Ismene refuses to help bury Polynices

Why does Ismene refuse to help Antigone bury Polynices?

• She is afraid of being stoned to death
• She feels her family has suffered enough
• She thinks women must submit to the authority of men
• all of these

In Scene 2, why does Ismene try to say she was involved in burying Polynices?

• She hopes Creon will forget the whole thing

• She thinks she can change his mind

• She feels guilty for not supporting and helping Antigone in the beginning and hopes to join her in being punished

• She believes that if she can win favor with Creon he will make her the Queen of Thebes