Beginnings of Antigone Review

Who in a Greek play comments on the action for the audience and speaks between each scene?

• Chorus

• Messenger

• Sentry

• Narrator

Who is now on the throne of Thebes because he is brother to the dead queen Jocasta? (So he needs the support of city elders)

• Creon

• Chorus

• Sophocles

• Oedipus

Who is the comic relief character or fool who has a back-and-forth with Creon after he and his unit see the crime of Polyneices being buried

• Creon

• Chorus

• Sentry

• Thebes

The play’s protagonist who is engaging in dangerous behavior after losing most of her family, immediately turns on her sister despite family loyalty

• Antigone

• Ismene

• Jocasta

• Argos

The rebel prince who is sentenced to have his body left unburied for rot and animals to consume

• Eteocles

• Polyneices

• Ares

• Sentry

The god who is given credit for a symbolic first strike in the civil war and praise for the victory; the god they are talking about whenever the text says “God” capital-G singular

• God

• Zeus

• Ares

• Hermes

The city that Polyneices got his invading army from b/c his home nation stood w/ his brother

• Thebes

• Argos

• Athens

• Sparta

The former queen of Thebes & mother to Oedipus, Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, & Ismene; sister to Creon

• Antigone

• Ismene

• Jocasta

• Dirce

The “justified” younger prince who defended his home from his traitor brother and an invading foreign army

• Eteocles

• Polyneices

• Creon

• Haemon

The City of Seven Gates where the cursed family line has ruled and the civil war just happened

• Thebes

• Argos

• Athens

• Sparta