Antigone Final Exam-Version 2
Multiple Choice
Directions: On your answer sheet, choose the most appropriate answer from the choices given.
1. Who is the new king?
a. Titus
b. Creon
c. Crayon
d. Telemachus
2. According to the king, what deserves the highest loyalty?
a. Schools
b. State
c. Family
d. Gods
3. In the prologue, what do Ismene and Antigone disagree about?
a. how to care for their father
b. burying their brother
c. the death of Polyneices
d. honoring Jocasta
4. How does Creon feel about the burial of Etocles?
a. He doesn’t want to give him a proper burial because of his disloyalty.
b. Etocles didn’t die.
c. He’s too sad he can’t even think about it.
d. He wants to give him a proper burial because of his loyalty.
5. How does Creon feel about the burial of Polyneices?
a. He doesn’t want to give him a proper burial because of his disloyalty.
b. Polyneices didn’t die.
c. He’s too sad he can’t even think about it.
d. He wants to give him a proper burial because of his loyalty.
6. What is the example of dramatic irony at the end of scene 1?
a. Ismene doesn’t want to bury her brother but Antigone does.
b. Creon doesn’t like idea of Antigone’s actions.
c. The audience knows Antigone buried Polyneices but Creon doesn’t.
d. Oedipus married his own mother.
7. What evidence is at the “crime” scene to suggest who committed the act?
a. fingerprints
b. Antigone’s handkerchief
c. A family crest
d. Nothing
8. What does Antigone recognize as supreme law?
a. Gods
b. State
c. Schools
d. Family
9. What is Antigone’s attitude toward death?
a. Scared
b. Accepting
c. Indifferent
d. Excited
10. What does Creon decide will happen to Ismene?
a. She will have the same punishment as Antigone
b. She is unable to be punished since she fled Thebes
c. She will be hanged.
d. She will be shot.
11. What reason does Creon give for not allowing Antigone to rebel simply because she is family?
a. she is not beautiful enough
b. she broke the law
c. he wants her for himself
d. he wants grandchildren
12. “It is no city if it takes orders from one voice.” Scene 3, line 106- Who is Haemon referring to in this line?
a. Antigone
b. Ismene
c. Creon
d. Etocles
13. What is the initial punishment for burying Polyneices?
a. death by firing squad
b. public hanging
c. banishment
d. death by stoning
14. What does the Chorus believe has prompted the confrontation between Haemon and Creon?
a. Jealousy
b. Love
c. Hatred
d. Carelessness
15. How has Creon’s punishment for Antigone changed?
a. She will now be hanged.
b. She will now be locked up with little food.
c. She will now be freed.
d. She will now be shot.
16. What situation does Antigone blame as the cause of the demise of her marriage to Haemon?
a. her father’s marriage to his mother
b. Polyneices death
c. Polyneices betrayal of country
d. Ismene’s disloyalty to family
17. What is Antigone asking the gods to do in the following lines?
“I have not sinned before God. Or if I have,
I shall know the truth in death. But if the guilt
Lies upon Creon who judged me, then, I pray,
May his punishment equal my own.” Scene 4 lines 67-70
a. To forgive her.
b. To free her.
c. To punish Creon equally.
d. To not be judged.
18. How would you describe the relationship between Teiresias and Creon in the beginning of scene 5?
a. Tense
b. Forgiving
c. In agreement
d. Indifferent
19. Who are the 3 people who died in scene 5?
a. Etocles, Polyneices, Antigone
b. Oedipus, Antigone, Ismene
c. Eurydice, Haemon, Ismene
d. Antigone, Eurydice, Haemon
20. How did Antigone die?
a. She stabbed herself with a sword.
b. She stabbed herself with a knife.
c. She hung herself.
d. She didn’t die.
21. How did Haemon die?
a. He stabbed himself with a sword.
b. He stabbed himself with a pole.
c. He hung himself.
d. He didn’t die.
22. How did Eurydice die?
a. She stabbed herself with a sword.
b. She stabbed herself with a knife.
c. She hung herself.
d. She didn’t die.
23. How would you describe Creon’s feelings at the end of the play?
a. Careless
b. Remorseful
c. Relieved
d. Joyful
Fill in the Blank
Directions: On your answer sheet, fill in the appropriate character. Each character will be used once; some may be
used more than once.
Antigone
Etocles
Creon
Ismene
Oedipus
Eurydice
Polynieces
24. Antigone and _______________ are sisters.
25. ______________ and _______________ are brothers.
26. ______________ and _______________ are engaged.
27. ______________ is King of Thebes.
28. Eurydice is ______________’s wife.
29. Antigone’s father, ______________, married his own mother.
30. ______________ hung him/herself. When _____________ saw that, he/she stabbed him/herself.