Pre-test quiz for Antigone Unit
Directions for Pretest: fill out any information you know on a separate page or pages of paper. Put:
1. Your name,
2. your class section (example: 4th/5th block),
3. your classroom teacher (example: Mrs. Townsend), and
4. today’s date:
All on the upper-right-hand corner of your blank paper. Do NOT use this test paper to write on.
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Place a blank sheet of paper on the front of this pretest with only your name on it. This will make it easy for you to see your
test later without anyone seeing the score or answers on other quizzes. We will do all quizzes this way during the Unit.
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Answer all the questions that you can from the guide below. If you don’t know an answer, just put “DK”.
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Turn in your paper or papers and put the cover sheet on top with your name on it. Staple all the pages together in the upperleft-hand corner.
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Place the completed pre-test in the “in” box on Mrs. Sheppard’s desk. These pre-test quizzes will not be graded. They are pretests to see how much the class already knows about the Unit so that the Unit can be better fitted to everyone in the class.
PLEASE DO NOT MARK ON THIS PRETEST PAPER.
The entire pretest is timed for 30 minutes or less, so please be brief as possible, but still answer the questions.
Pretest Quiz Questions:
1. What do you know about the Greek pantheon (gods and goddesses of ancient times in Greece)? Write what you know about each.
You may also write a short synopsis or brief overview of any myths that you know, taking into consideration the time element of this
pretest. Use extra paper if you want to.
2. Are you familiar with the Freytag Pyramid? If yes, please draw one and indicate each part of the Freytag Pyramid, showing
Exposition, Rising Action, etc.
3. What are the characteristics of Ancient Greek Tragedy? How does Greek tragedy differ from a tragic movie or play of today?
4. Define the following words:
choragus
Mt. Olympus
anarchy
chorus
Niobe
slacken
doddering
compulsive
perverse
sententious
transcend
Maenad
anarchy
deference
Mount Olympus
tragedy
subordinate
Pluto (not the planet or
cartoon character)
sultry
malicious
lamentation
dirge
civic
submission
rash (adj)
Athena
5. What is a Tragic Flaw or Hamartia?
6. What is Hubris?
7. What is a theme in literature or in a play?
8. Who was Oedipus? Do you know his story?
9. What relationship does Antigone have with Oedipus?
10. Why does Antigone make the decisions that she makes in the play, Antigone?
11. What do you think will happen to Creon after the play, Antigone?