Antigone Characters and Multiple Choice Questions

Creon has forbidden Polyneices’s burial because Creon views him as

• a. a traitor

• b. a coward

• c. insignificant

• d. cursed by the gods

What is the setting of the play?

• Thebes

• Athens

• Delphi

• Corinth

What happened to Antigone’s brothers?

• They both ran away from home to escape their fate

• They were both killed by Creon in a bitter dispute

• They were fighting over who was to get Aphrodite’s hand in marriage

• They killed each other in a bitter battle for the throne of Thebes

Antigone’s determination to bury Polyneices is based mainly on feelings of

• hatred for Creon.

• disloyalty to Thebes.

• loyalty for her brother.

• anger at the insult to her family.

Ismene is, at first, unwilling to help Antigone bury Polyneices because Ismene

• thinks that Creon is right to forbid his burial.

• does not want to be punished for breaking the law.

• believes the gods would oppose such behavior.

• believes the dead don’t need to be buried.

When Ismene shows reluctance to help Antigone bury Polyneices, Antigone responds with

• scorn and anger

• begging and pleading

• understanding and pity

• confused disbelief

What is supposed to happen to Antigone if she disobeys Creon’s law?

• She will be thrown in the river Styx down in the Underworld with Hades

• She will be beheaded in front of the citizens of Thebes

• she will put in a room full of ninjas and pray for survival

• She will be stoned to death

Creon orders Antigone to be locked in a vault because:

• he could hide her whereabouts from Haemon

• there had already been too much bloodshed in Thebes

• he could feel less responsible for her death

• she would have time to think about what she had done

When Antigone goes ahead with her plan to bury Polyneices, she believes that

• she can avoid death.

• she may very well be put to death.

• Creon will spare her from punishment.

• the citizens of the city will protect her from Creon.

Creon becomes upset whenever he perceives a challenge to his

• courage

• authority

• morality

• manhood