Antigone Unit Test Study Guide

Antigone Unit Test Study Guide

Characters:

Antigone – Believed the laws of the gods super ceded those of the mortals

Ismene – Wanted to be equally guilty

Teiresias – Convinced Creon he was older and therefore wiser

Haimon – Attempted to stab Creon and fell upon his own sword

Eteocles – Refused to share the throne of Thebes with his brother

Polyneices – Was denied burial because he attacked his own city

Multiple Choice Questions:

Oedipus Questions

1.  Oedipus was married to… Jocasta

2.  Oedipus’ biological father was… Laius

3.  Who casts a generational curse on his/ her family? Oedipus

4.  Who stabs out his/ her own eyes? Oedipus

5.  One of the thematic motifs in Oedipus is… an individual cannot always escape his/her fate or destiny.

Prologue & Scene I

1.  Creon has forbidden Polyneices’s burial because Creon views him as a ___traitor__.

2.  What is the setting of the play? Thebes

3.  What happened to Antigone’s brothers? They killed each other in a bitter battle for the throne of Thebes

4.  Antigone’s determination to bury Polyneices is based mainly on feelings of loyalty for her brother

5.  Ismene is, at first, unwilling to help Antigone bury Polyneices because Ismene does not want to be punished for breaking the law.

6.  When Ismene shows reluctance to help Antigone bury Polyneices, Antigone responds with scorn and anger.

7.  Who is the protagonist in this play? Antigone

Scene II

8.  When Antigone goes ahead with her plan to bury Polyneices, she believes that she may very well be put to death

9.  Creon becomes upset whenever he perceives a challenge to his____authority____.

10.  Who is the antagonist in the play? Creon

11.  How did the Sentry know that it was Antigone that buried Polyneices? He saw her do it

Scene III

12.  What does Creon say makes a good son? Someone that obeys his father no matter what

13.  Haimon uses a metaphor in the following quote to express that— “In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all.” that Creon’s stubbornness will lead to his downfall.

14.  You are not in a position to know everything/ that people say or do, or what they feel:/ your temper terrifies them—everyone will tell you only what you like to hear.” In the previous quote, Haimon is appealing to— Logic

Scene IV, V & Exodus

15.  What can the reader infer from the following speech by Antigone? “You have touched it at last: that bridal bed/ Unspeakable, horror of son and mother mingling:/ Their crime, infection of all our family!/ O Oedipus, father and brother!/ Your marriage strikes from the grave to murder mine.” Antigone feels that she is cursed by the sins of her father.

16.  How does Creon respond to the death of his wife and son? He blames himself