Antigone Review

The purpose of the chorus is to...

• Provide background information and comment on the actions in the play.

• Provide allusions relating to the play.

• Provide music and song to make it more entertaining.

• Provide foreshadowing about future events

Which words best describe Antigone?

• Cruel, cold, stubborn

• Determined, defiant, boastful

• Caring, compassionate, fearful

• Loud, rude, fearless

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What best describes Creon's reactions to Antigone throughout the play?

• Skeptical to act at first, then happy Antigone has died

• Enraged at a challenge to his power and happy she perishes at the end.

• Infuriated at first and remains enraged until Antigone is dead.

• Stubborn and angry at Antigone but ultimately wishes she had lived.

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ANTIGONE: Death, who lays all to rest, is leading me to Acheron ’s far strand Alive; to me no bridal hymns belong, for me no marriage song has yet been sung; but Acheron instead is it, whom I must wed. Antigone uses figurative language to...

• Personify death as her husband

• Create an image of the underworld as her final resting place.

• Allude to another famous Greek tragedy to show her relationship with Haemon

• Compare her current plight to that of Acheron in Greek mythology.

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Which is one of the play's central themes?

• The dead must be honored, regardless of actions in life.

• When two brothers fight, no one wins.

• People should always obey their ruler.

• The dead do not care how they are treated.

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CREON: You, of all this people, are singular in your discernment.

ANTIGONE: Nay, they too discern; they but refrain their tongues at your behest. CREON: And you are not ashamed that you deem otherwise?

ANTIGONE: It is not shame to pay respect to our own flesh and blood.

CREON: And his dead foeman, was not he your brother as well? 

Who is the dead foeman?

• Polyneices

• Eteocles

• Haemon

• Antigone

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What words best describe Ismene in the play?

• Loyal, Obedient, Fearful

• Rude, Defiant, Strong

• Rebel, Cruel, Prideful

• Stupid, Meek, Confused

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King Creon believes....

• Everyone should have a voice in the government.

• The ruler is the state and all should obey.

• Only listen to those with more wisdom.

• The people in society should be left alone.

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The central conflict in the play is...

• Antigone wants to bury her brother Polyneices but Creon makes an edict against it.

• Ismene and Antigone fight for who controls the throne.

• King Creon believes everyone should obey him and is angry that everyone is defying him.

• Antigone is prideful and boastful.

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Antigone believes loyalty to _____comes first while Creon believes loyalty to _____ comes first.

• family, entertainment

• the ruler, the people

• family, the state

• the people, family

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