Sophomore English
Antigone Test – 100 pts.
Part I – Background for Antigone – 25 pts.
Fill in the blank:
1. Who was the most powerful of the Greek Gods?_________________
2. Who is the goddess of beauty and love?____________________
3. What was the site of dramatic presentations that was also the home of Sophocles?
___________________________.
4. In what city does the play Antigone takes place? ____________________
5. What is the number of actors appearing on stage together that Sophocles is
credited for beginning? ________________
6. How many of the seven Sophocles plays remain today?_____________
7. How many people could see a play at one time in an amphitheater?____________
8. Where did the actors have their sound devices so that they could be heard?
__________________________
9. What was an aspect of Greek theater where several people acted together as one
character?____________________
10. Who was Antigone’s father and half-brother?________________________
11. What did Antigone’s father do to himself as punishment? _________________
12. What is the crime that Antigone feels she has to commit?__________________
13. What did the Greeks believe would happen to a person if he was not given proper
burial?___________________________________
14. What are the two odes called that the chorus chants and dances to as they
perform?________________________
15. What is the emotion that stems from tragedy?
16. What kind of playwright is Sophocles considered to be?________________
17. What did the actors wear?_____________________
18. What else did the actors wear?________________________
19. What is the Greek word that means actor?________________________
20. Who was the Greek god of wine and fertility who had dramas presented in his
honor?___________________________
Word Bank
3
Soul cannot rest
Platform shores
Golden Age
7
Thebes
Hypocrite
Amphitheaters
put eyes out
masks
playwriting
Greek tragedian
Olympus
Aphrodite
Euripides
Oedipus
chorus
Dionysus
3
Zeus
100
Golden Age
male
bury a brother
Athens
strophe/antistrophe
catharsis
Aeschylus
40,000
Part II – Play details - 60 pts.
Describe the major events, the characters motivations and emotions, and the outcome of
each scene performed in class.
Scene One: (Ismene, Antigone, Chorus)
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Scene Two: (Creon, Guard, Chorus)
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Scene Three: (Antigone, Creon, Ismene)
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Scene Four: (Haemon, Creon, Chorus)
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Scene Five: (Teiresias, Creon, Chorus)
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Scene Six: (Messenger, Eurydice, Creon, Chorus)
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Part III: Short Answer Response – 25 pts. Write an organized (into., body, conclusion)
25 line response using complete sentences answering this question:
“Was it justifiable for Antigone to break the law?” Why or why
not?