Antigone Question Preview (ID: 61227)

a) Ate their mothers flesh

b) Murdered their couisn in a battle over Thebes

c) Fought on opposite sides in a war for power over Thebes

d) Fought together in a war with Creon to take over Thebes

a) Apollo

b) Zeus

c) Oedipus

d) Creon

a) THEBES SHOULD HAVE A DRAMA FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE VICTORY IN WAR AGAINST THE PERSIANS

b) ANTIGONE WILL REIGN IN HIS PLACE WHILE HE GOES INTO EXILE

c) ETEOCLES IS TO BE LEFT FOR THE CARRION ANIMALS AND POLYNEICES THROWN INTO THE SEA

d) ETEOCLES IS TO BE GIVEN A FUNERAL AND FULL HONORS WHILE POLYNEICES' BODY WILL BE LEFT FOR THE SUN AND THE CARRION ANIMALS

a) ESCAPE THEBES

b) STTART AN ARMED REVOLUTION AGAINST CREON

c) ACCEPT THEIR FATE

d) BURY POLYNEICES' BODY

a) HUMILITY

b) LOYALTY TO THE STATE

c) COMPASSION

d) MODERATION

a) THAT SOMEONE HAS BURIED POLYNEICES

b) THAT ARGOS IS PREPARING ANOTHER ATTACK

c) THAT SOMEONE IS HIRING MERCENARIES TO FIGHT CREON

d) THAT ISMENE HAS BURIED POLYNEICES

a) THAT HE MUST LEAVE THEBES IN SHAME

b) THAT HE MUST FIND THE CULPRIT OR FACE EXECUTION

c) THAT HE MUST PRAY AT THE ALTAR OF ZEUS FOR FORGIVENESS

d) THAT HE MUST FIND THE CULPRIT OR HE AND THE OTHER GUARDS WILL BE DEMOTED

a) ZEUS STANDING OVER POLYNEICES' BODY IN TRIUMPH

b) BIRDS GLUTTED WITH BLOOD

c) A SUDDEN AND MYSTERIOUS DUST STORM, WHICH HE TAKES AS A SIGN OF THE GODS' DISPLEASURE

d) ANTIGONE AND ISMENE FIGHTING OVER THE BODY

a) DEFENDS HER ACTIONS BY THREATENING TO START AN ARMED REVOLUTION

b) DEFENDS HER ACTIONS BY EXPLICITLY ASSERTING THAT THE CONSCIENCE IS THE HIGHEST JUDGE OF MORALITY

c) DEFENDS HER ACTIONS BY CLAIMING THAT CREON HAS NO LEGITIMATE CLAIM TO THE THRONE

d) DEFENDS HER ACTIONS BY ASSERTING THE SUPREMACY OF DIVINE LAW

a) THAT ANTIGONE CONSISTENTLY KEEPS HER AGENCY WHILE ISMENE SEEMS TO HAVE VERY LITTLE AGENCY

b) THAT ISMENE AND ANTIGONE HAVE NEVER GOTTEN ALONG

c) THAT ISMENE IS THE BRAINS BEHIND THE OPERATION, AND ANTIGONE THE MUSCLE

d) THAT ISMENE WAS THEIR FATHER'S FAVORITE

a) SHE SHRIEKS ACCUSATIONS AT ANTIGONE

b) SHE TRIES TO TAKE SOME OF THE BLAME FOR BURYING POLYNEICES

c) SHE TRIES TO ATTACK CREON

d) SHE TRIES TO RALLY THE CHORUS IN SUPPORT OF THE SISTERS

a) THAT ANTIGONE IS PRINCESS AND HEIR TO THE THRONE

b) THAT ANTIGONE IS A TIRELESS CHAMPION OF THE CITY'S POOR

c) THAT ANTIGONE IS THE MOST LOVED WOMAN IN ARGOS

d) THAT ANTIGONE IS HAEMON'S BETROTHED, AND THUS CREON'S FUTURE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW

a) HAEMON THREATENS TO TELL EURYDICE WHAT'S GOING ON.

b) CREON ORDERS HAEMON TO KILL ANTIGONE HIMSELF, BUT SOON RELENTS.

c) AT FIRST HAEMON SEEMS TO AGREE WITH HIS FATHER, BUT WHEN HE TRIES TO PERSUADE CREON TO SPARE ANTIGONE AND THEN THEY ARGUE

d) CREON ORDERS HAEMON TO KILL ANTIGONE HIMSELF, BUT SOON RELENTS.

a) THAT THE PEOPLE OF THEBES SECRETLY SIDE WITH ANTIGONE

b) THAT ANTIGONE IS THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THRONE

c) THAT ANTIGONE IS ESPECIALLY LOVED BY THE GODDESS ARTEMIS

d) ALL OF THE ABOVE

a) BECAUSE SHE IS THE RIGHTFUL HEIR TO THE THRONE

b) BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN AND THEY CANNOT ALLOW PEOPLE TO SAY THAT THEY WERE BEATEN BY A WOMAN

c) BECAUSE SHE INSULTED THE GOD DIONYSUS

d) BECAUSE SHE INSULTED THE GODS

a) EMPATHY FOR THE DEAD

b) THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP

c) PRIDE IN ONES ACTIONS

d) HONORING FAMILY TIES

a) She is afraid of breaking the king's order.

b) She is disgusted by corpses.

c) She wants to honor the laws of the gods.

d) She fears that Polynices's troops will attack them.

a) It will be fed to crows.

b) It will be mummified.

c) It will be burned at the city walls.

d) It will get a hero's burial.

a) It is disgusted by Creon's cruelty.

b) It hopes Creon changes his mind.

c) It will follow Creon's wishes.

d) It thinks Creon is following divine law.

a) Antigone

b) The Gods

c) Ismene

d) Polynices's soldiers