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Antigone Exam A
I. Match the Person

A. Laios B. Jocasta C. Oedipus D. Polyneices

E. Eteocles AB. Ismene AC. Antigone AD. Teiresias

AE. Creon BC. Eurydice BD. Haemon BE. Choragus

CD. Chorus CE. Messenger DE. Sentry

1. This person is buried with full military honors.

2. This person stabs his eyes out.

3. These people are a group of 15 old men that explain what happens in the story.

4. This person is engaged to her cousin.

5. This person is so overcome with grief that she stabs herself in the heart.

6. This person is killed by his son.

7. This person catches Antigone in the act of reburying her brother.

8. This person tries to stab someone but misses, and then stabs himself on his side.

9. This person is a blind prophet.

10. This person brings bad news to the Choragus, Audience, and Eurydice.

11. This person marries her son.

12. This person is too prideful and suffers the consequences as a result of the pride.

13. This person is a leader of a bunch of old men.

14. This person refuses to bury her dead brother.

15. This person is eaten by dogs. (Not Chihuahuas, Yorkies, or Pitbulls!)

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II. Match the Quote

16. Antigone A. “You consider it right for a man of my years and

experience to go to school to a boy…Fool, adolescent
fool!”

17. Ismene B. “O King, a man should never be too sure of everything; I would
have sworn that you’d not see me here again…”

18. Creon C. “Grief and I are no strangers.”

19. Haimon D. “They are dead. The living are guilty of their death.”

20. Eurydice E. “Creon, take my advice: Go quickly, free Antigone from her
vault and build a tomb for the body of Polyneices.”

21. Teiresias AB. “They mean a great deal to me, but I have no strength to break
the laws that were made for public good.”

22. Chorus AC. “You are not in a position to know everything that people say
or do, or what they feel. Your temper terrifies them…”

23. Choragus AD. “O tomb, vaulted bride bed in eternal rock, Soon I shall be
with my own again.”

24. Sentry AE. “You are a king because of me.”

25. Messenger BC. “Fortunate is the man who has never tasted God’s vengeance!
Where once the anger of heaven has struck, that house is shaken
forever. Damnation rises behind each child…”
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III. Family Tree

26. Antigone 27. Ismene 28. Creon 29. Haemon 30. Eurydice
31. Polyneices 32. Eteocles 33. Oedipus 34. Jocasta 35. Laios (Omit)

Family Tree

A B C D

OMIT Oedipus
F Haemon
G

H I J K