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Name ____________________________________ Per. ________________

Test: Antigone
Write the letter(s) of the correct answers in the left margin.
Each Question is worth two points. Choose the best answer unless directed otherwise.
1. The actors in Greek drama were A. all male
B. all female C. a mix both
2. How many actorsnot including members of the chorus---did Sophocles use in his
dramas? A. one B. two
C. three
3. Sometimes the chorus speaks in unison. At other times, one member speaks out on
behalf of the chorus and engages in dialogue with an actor. This man is called
A. Choragus B. Choristo C. Choristor
4. Which of the following accoutrements/accessories were used during Sophocles times
because of the large and distant audience? Chooose two. .
A. oversized masks B. platform shoes
C. skin that was painted gold or silver.
5. Which theme does Sophocles support in both plays, Antigone and Oedipus?
A. Man may not understand the ways, prophecies, or intentions of the gods, but he
cannot escape them and he must respect them.
B. Man is greater than the gods and should be proud and willing to go head to head
against them when they are wrong.
C. Nothing a man does matters at all so he may as well do whatever he wants.
T/F
6. Creon and Antigone both are of significant stature, significant importance, in Thebes.
7. Both Creon and Antigone represent important values of the Greeks though they may
not be equally important: Creon respects human law with especial vigor, and Antigone
respects the sacred laws, a higher power..
8. It is reasonable to point to the scene where Haemon leaves Creon because he still
intends to bury Antigone alive as the turning point or climax of the play. Most people
lose all hope that things will get better for Creon at this point. He has lost his chance to
make things better at this point. Everything will probably go downhill from here.
9. The catastrophe of the play takes place in the tomb.
10. Jocasta and Antigone both hanged themselves in shame at what they had done.

Matching Choose the best/most precise answer.

A. Amphitheater B. Orchestra
C. Skene
AB. . Ob skene AC. Choral Ode/paean etc.
BC. Dionysus

D. Parados E. Seer/oracle
AD. Chorus.
AE. Theme

11. The scene in which the chorus parades in chanting and takes its position. .
12. The storage building that served as a backdrop. If something is too brutal or to be onstage,
they dont show it, they simply report that if happened behind this structure---off stage.

14. Any chorus speech occurring between the exodus and the parados is called what?
15. This group of 15 characters is considered the perfect audience, offering questions and
commentary about the action on the stage.
16. This location is reserved for scenes too gruesome or inappropriate to be on stage.
17. This is an outdoor theater. Seats are cut into the hillside.
18. The place the chorus stands to chant and sing.
19. The god who was honored at the festival where Sophocles presented plays.
20. The character whom the gods use to make known to man their will.
T/F
21. The deaths of Jocasta , Antigone, Eurydice and Haemon were consider obscene so they are
reported as having happened offstage rather than being seen by the audience..
22. Haemon tells his father that both Creon and Antigone cannot be right, therefore it must be
Antigone who is right. Right from the start it is clear he loves his bride to be more than his father.
23. When Creon announces that Ismene will not share Antigones fate, the audience is reminded that
he is essentially a just man, worthy in most ways, of our admiration. Tragic heroes must be
admirable.
24. Creon is like Oedipus is that he will not listen to those who suggest he is part of the problem.
25. Creon plans to free Antigone and then bury Polyneices, but he goes to deal with Polyneices first.

Quote Identification: Identify the speaker Some choices used more than once.

A. Creon B. Eurydice C. Messenger

AC. Ismene
AD. Chorus/Choragus

D. Sentry E. Haemon AB. Antigone

AE. Tiresias.

26. It is the dead, Not the living, who make the longest demands. We die forever.
27. We are only women. We cannot fight with methe law is strong, we must give into the lawI
must yield to those in authority.
28. Out new king is comingin this auspicious dawn of his reign, what are the new complexities
that shifting Fate has woven for him?...Why has he summoned the old men to hear him?
29. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraidto follow the course that he
knows is best for the state; and as for the man who sets private friendship above public welfare, I
have no use for him, either.
30. So here I am, no happier to be here than you are to have me; Nobody likes the man who brings
bad news.
31. Sold your soul for some silver, thats what youve done.
32. How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
33. Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.
34.. Thiswas a comfort to mefor it is a good thing to escape from death, but it is no great
pleasure to bring death to a friend. Yet I always say there is nothing so comfortable as your own
safe skin.
35. It was not Gods proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such
laws.The immortal unrecorded laws of God, they areoperative forever, beyond man utterly.
36. Arrest Ismene. I accuse her equally.
37. Do you refuse me, Antigone? I want to die with you. I too have a dutyto the dead.
38. So you are right not to lose your head over this woman. Your pleasurewould soon grow cold
and then youd have a hellcat in bed and elsewhere.
39. You are not in a position to know everything. Your temper terrifies themI have hear them
they say no woman has ever so unreasonably died so shameful a death for a generous act. She
covered her brothers body, Is this indecent?
40. It is not right if I am wrong. But if I am young and right, what does my age matter?

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41. Take herand leave her alone there. And if she lives or dies, thats her affair, not our, out hands
are clean.
42. I tell you, Creon, you yourself have brought this new calamity upon usour hearths and alters
are stained with the corruption of dogs and carrion birds that glut themselves on the corpse of
Oedipus son.
43. The time is not far off when you shall pay back corpse for corpse, flesh of your own flesh. You
have thrust the child of this world into living night; You have kept from the gods below the child that
is theirs. The one in a gravethe otherdenied the grave. This is your crime and the furiesare
swift with terrible punishment for you.
44. In the caverns farthest corner we saw her lying; She had made a noose of her fine linen veil
Haemon lay beside herWhen Creon sawhe calledWhat have your done, child? Speak to me
but Haemon spat in his face.
45. O God, I am sick with fear. Are there no swords here? Has no one a blow for me? Let death
come quickly, and be kind to me.
46. There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big
words are always punished, and proud men in old age learn to be wise.
47. The truth is hard to bear. Surely a god has crushed me beneath the hugest weight of heavento
trample out the thing I held most dear.
48 Polyneicesroused them with windy phrases, he the wild eagle screaming insults above our
land.
49. Go away, Ismene. I shall be hating your soon, and the dead will too.
50. Id like nothing better than bringing him the man! But bring him or not, you have seen the last
of me here.

Name ___________________________________________ Per. ______________

In the essays, you are showing me both your knowledge of the play and your ability to write Use
complete sentences and correct grammar and punctuation. Number each part of your answer 1, 2 or 3.
Short Essay 1: Choose one of the passages above and copy it. Then identify 1) who is talking to
whom 2) what is going on in the play at this time 3) the significance of the passage.

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Short Essay 2. Choose another of the passages above and copy it. Then identify 1) who is talking to
whom 2) what is going on in the play at this time 3) the significance of the passage.

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