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Who is the God of wine, fertility, and joyous life?
Category 1- 10 points
Who is Antigone and Ismene’s cursed
Father?
Category 1 – 20 points
Who wrote the play Antigone?
Category 1 – 30 points
Name the protagonist of the play?
Category 1 – 40 points
What is Creon’s wife’s name?
Category 1 – 50 points
Why does Creon issue an edict against burying
Polynecies body?
Category 2 – 10 points
a) he broke his exile, attacked Thebes, and tried to
sell his people into slavery.
b) The gods were angry and threatened destruction
of Thebes
c) Creon favored the other brother, who named
Creon successor of the throne.
d) Creon is favored by the gods, and therefore no
harm would come to him
Before his death, what does Haemon do?
Category 2 – 20 points
a) threatens his father with a sword
b) tries to stop Antigone from confessing her
disobedience
c) spits in his fathers face.
Through out the play the tone of the parados is ?
Category 2 – 30 points
a) sad and confusing
b) full of pity and fear
c) hopeful and optimistic
d) a transgression on a dirge
What is Creon’s tragic flaw? (Greek term)
Category 2 – 40 points
According to the Greeks, a tragedy is not
considered depressing for all of the
reasons except
Category 2 – 50 points
a) emphasis on the dignity of man
b) ability of man to face fate with courage
c) ability of man to follow the dictates of his
conscience
d) free will determines a persons future
Identify the speaker of these lines!
“ I have nothing for contempt for the kind
of governor who is afraid..as for the man
who sets private friendship above the
public welfare-I have no use for him.”
Category 3 – 10 points
Identify the speaker of these lines!
“ Reason is God’s crowning gift to
man..Your temper terrifies themeveryone will tell you only what you like
to hear.”
Category 3 – 20 points
Identify the speaker of these lines!
“I have been a stranger here in my own
land: All my life the blasphemy of my
birth has followed me.”
Category 3 – 30 points
Identify the speaker of these lines!
“ Think: all men make mistakes, But a good
man yields when he knows his course is
wrong, And repairs the evil. The only crime is
pride.”
Category 3 – 40 points
Identify the speaker of these lines!
“He is a walking dead man..If his pleasure is
gone, I would not give so much as the shadow of
smoke for all he owns.”
Category 3 – 50 points
Name the person that relates information that has
occurred off stage?
Category 4 – 10 points
Creon begins his speech comparing his rule
with the metaphor
a) “our ship of state”
b)“a coat of many colors”
c) “the bird in flight”
d)“a dust of a mound”
Category 4 –30points
Name the group of Theban elders who speak
between scenes?
Category 4 –20points
What is the name of the city that the
play takes place in?
Category 4 – 40 points
Greek tragedy was supposed to arouse the
emotions of which of the following?
a) anger and remorse
b)fear and anger
c) amusement and pity
d)pity and fear
Category 4 – 50 points
Is a dirge a piece of music that is sad, joyful,
or complicated?
Category 5 – 10 points
Is an edict a request, a command, or a
question?
Category 5 – 20 points
When is it most important to be lithe-while
competing in a spelling bee, lifting weights, or
performing gymnastics?
Category 5- 30 points
Does a person defile a lake by photographing it,
polluting it, or stocking it with fish?
Category 5 – 40 points
Would lamentation be most expected after a
tragedy, a dinner party, or a graduation?
Category 5 – 50 points