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::)Lit 2: The Literatures of the World
::)Final Examination
;DProf. ETM Solmerano
Multiple Choice
A. ANTIGONE
1. Who wrote “Antigone”?
a. Socrates
b. Sophocles
c. Shakespeare
d. Aristotle
2. The play “Antigone”:
a. melodrama
b. tragedy
c. farce
d. comedy
3. “Antigone” is set in:
a. Athens
b. Colonus
c. Thebes
d. Sparta
4. The purpose of the chorus is to:
a. dance
b. sing
c. chant
d. comment
5. Creon believes that:
a. Distinguished citizens should help run the government.
b. Democracy rules!
c. The people have a right to participate in their government.
d. The ruler of a state has total power.
6. Why does Creon order Polyneices’ body left unburied?
a. Creon does not believe in burying the dead.
b. Polyneices was fighting against Thebes when he died.
c. Creon always hated Oedipus, Polyneices father.
d. Creon has always disliked him.
7. Which of the following happen first?
a. Duh.
b. Antigone is brought to Creon by the sentry.
c. Ismene comes to share the blame for Polyneices’ burial.
d. Haemon tries to persuade his father to change his mind about Antigone’s punishment.
8. How does Creon react to the news that someone has performed burial ceremonies over Polyneices’ body?
a. He is furious.
b. He is very understanding.
c. He is apathetic.
d. He is forgiving.
9. What assumption does Creon make about Polyneices’ burial?
a. The gods must have buried Polyneices.
b. Antigone must have done it.
c. Someone must have been bribed to do it.
d. All of the above
10. What is the main reason Antigone insists on burying Polyneices?
a. She does not want vultures to eat Polyneices’ body.
b. If left unburied, Polyneices’ body will stink.
c. If left unburied, Polyneices’ body will not be among the honored dead.
d. Polyneices is her brother.
11. Who asks the question: “So you chose flagrantly to disobey my law?”
a. Creon
b. Choragos
c. Haemon
d. Tiresias
12. Why does Creon punish Antigone?
a. Antigone is a woman.
b. Antigone has committed treason.
c. Antigone has broken the law by burying her brother.
d. All of the above
13. What punishment does Creon impose on Antigone?
a. She is to be deflowered.
b. She is to be stoned.
c. She is to be crucified.
d. She is to be buried alive in a cave and left to die.
14. How does Antigone characterize her actions?
a. She believes she acted honorably.
b. She claims to have acted in ignorance.
c. She knows she acted disgracefully.
d. She claims herself to be innocent.
15. Which would you infer is more important to Antigone?
a. Her honor
b. Her pride
c. Her life
d. Her groom
16. General Robert E. Lee once said: “You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.” Lee’s words may be said to describe one of the themes of “Antigone” written centuries earlier.
a. She must choose whether to support Eteocles or follow Polyneices.
b. She must decide whether to marry Haemon or break her engagement to him.
c. She must choose whether to bury her brother or obey the king.
d. She must whether to be faithful to her bridegroom or faithful to the king.
17. Which of the following is a FACT not an opinion?
a. Antigone freely admits her guilt
b. Creon must be correct about Polyneices because he is a king
c. Polyneices is a selfish young man.
d. Antigone should have obeyed the King’s edict.
18. Which statement sums up how Ismene sees the position of women in society?
a. Men and women are equals in all respect.
b. Women should rule men.
c. Women should be submissive to men.
d. Women should stand up for what they know to be right.
19. In Act 3, the Chorus predicts King Creon’s downfall: “…when the heavens curse a house, each generation finds its doom. And now the House of Oedipus shall crumble.” In Act 4, Creon has an angry and revealing exchange of words with his son:
a. ambition
b. lust
c. pride
d. greed
20. Which of the following expresses an OPINION, not a fact?
a. Haemon is young.
b. Haemon offers Creon advice.
c. Haemon is an honorable man.
d. All of the above
21. Which of the following events leads to the other two?
a. Creon sentences Antigone to be buried alive in a cave.
b. Haemon commits suicide.
c. Eurydice kills herself.
d. This question is not right.
22. Which of these statements is a FACT, not an opinion?
a. Ismene is right when she refuses to help Antigone.
b. Creon thinks Antigone is foul and evil.
c. If a mind changes his mind, he shows weak character.
d. None of the above
23. Which event is the RESULT of the other two?
a. Antigone buries Polyneices.
b. Haemon threatens never to see Creon again.
c. Creon punishes Antigone.
d. Duh.
24. In the cave, Haemon:
a. forgives his father
b. tries to stab his father
c. begs his father for forgiveness
d. ignores his father
25. Which of the following statements expresses an OPINION, not a fact?
a. Antigone should have followed the laws of her country.
b. Haemon breaks with his father over Antigone’s sentence.
c. Ismene is not punished by Creon.
d. None of the above
26. What does Tiresias mean when he tells Creon, “…once more you stand upon the razor’s edge”?
a. He means Creon will fall on a sharp cliff.
b. He means Creon must make up his mind.
c. He means Creon is on the brink of a dangerous course of action.
d. He means Creon’s words are sharp and hurtful.
27. Who says: “Give death his due and do not kick a corpse”?
a. Ismene
b. Antigone
c. Tiresias
d. Haemon
28. What does Tiresias mean when he asks Creon, “Where is renown to kill a dead man twice”?
a. Speaking ill of a dead man brings no fame to the speaker.
b. Creon will win the popular vote by burying Polyneices.
c. It is impossible to kill a dead man twice.
d. Creon will be honored for leaving Polyneices unburied.
29. What happens immediately after Tiresias’ prophecy?
a. Haemon kills himself.
b. Creon buries Polyneices.
c. Creon goes to free Antigone.
d. None of the above
30. Why does Creon reconsider Antigone’s punishment?
a. Haemon threatens him with civil war.
b. Antigone admits that she was wrong.
c. His conscience bothers him.
d. Tiresias’ prophesies the death of his son because of Antigone’s sentence.
31. Which of the following states a FACT?
a. Tiresias is a very patient man.
b. After Tiresias’ prediction, Creon goes to free Antigone.
c. Creon should have listened to his son.
d. Antigone wins a noble death by burying Polyneices.
32. What is the function of the messenger in the play?
a. To announce the terrible events that happened offstage.
b. To entertain the audience
c. To comment on the situations or characters onstage.
d. To carry messages from one character to another.
33. Which event occurs LAST?
a. Haemon kills himself.
b. Antigone dies.
c. Eurydice kills herself.
d. Polyneices was buried by Creon.
34. Whom does Creon hold responsible for the tragic events in the play?
a. his son
b. Antigone
c. himself
d. The gods
35. Which description best fits Creon at the end?
a. a bitter father
b. a proud ruler
c. a content uncle
d. a sorrowful man
B. MACBETH
The Tragedy of Macbeth
36. Who are the two traitors at the beginning of the play?
a. Malcolm and Donalbain
b. Macdonwald and the Thane of Cawdor
c. Macduff and Glamis
d. Glamis and Cawdor
37. 'Stars hide your fires', is one of the many light/dark images. Who said this line?
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Macbeth
d. The witches
38. Who remarks 'there's husbandry in heaven their candles are all out'?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Lady Macbeth
d. Duncan
39. What, according to Macbeth, is the 'chief nourisher in life's feast'?
a. Friendship
b. Honour
c. Sleep
d. Love
40. Who or what was the 'filthy witness' mentioned by Lady Macbeth immediately after Duncan's assassination?
a. Daggers
b. Duncan's chamberlains
c. The Porter
d. Blood
41. Whom did Macbeth slay so that he would become king of Scotland?
a. Dumaine
b. Malcolm
c. Duncan
d. Dolphy
42. What is the missing word in this Macbeth quote?
"Vaulting ----, which o'erleaps itself and fails on the other".
a. power
b. pride
c. ambition
d. aspiration
43. Macbeth says:
"Bring me no more reports; let them fly all: Till ---- wood remove to Dunsinane".
What is the name of the wood?
a. Beech
b. Birnam
c. Cawdor
d. Caithness
44. "All the perfumes of ---- will not sweeten this little hand"
says Lady Macbeth. What is the missing word?
a. Albania
b. The apothecary
c. The Orient
d. Arabia
45. Who speaks the line "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. The Witches
d. The Sergeant
46. Have the witches the power of life and death?
a. Yes
b. No
47. Complete Duncan's comment, "There's no ... to find the mind's construction in the face".
a. Way
b. Art
c. Method
d. Skill
48. Did Lady Macbeth intend to kill Duncan herself?
a. Yes
b. No
49. Who spoke these lines on the battlements, "How goes the night, boy?"
a. Duncan
b. Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. Lady Macbeth
50. What fatal decision did Banquo make at the beginning of Act 3?
a. Kept his suspicions to himself
b. Made himself an easy target
c. Believed the witches
d. All of these aforementioned
51. Which apparition upset Macbeth the most?
a. Armoured head
b. Crowned child
c. Eight kings
d. Bloody child
52. Who was Queen of the Witches?
a. Cassiopeia
b. Gorgonia
c. Hecate
d. Minerva
53. Who said this? "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
a. Lady Macbeth
b. the doctor
c. Macbeth
d. Fleance
54. Who says this? "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not..".
a. Macbeth
b. Lady Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. the witches
55. Who was Siward?
a. King of Scotland
b. Earl of Northumberland, head of English forces
c. Thane of Ireland
d. Scottish doctor
56. Who was Seyton?
a. Friend
b. Thane
c. Servant
d. Soldier
57. How many soldiers did the King of England give Malcolm to help him fight Macbeth?
a. 20,000
b. 10,000
c. 5,000
d. 1,000
58. Who spoke these lines: 'And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death'
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. Macbeth
d. Malcolm
59. How many people did Macduff kill at the end of the play?
a. Two
b. One
c. Three
d. Five
60. What reward did Malcolm promise his thanes for their help in re-gaining his throne?
a. Land
b. Jobs
c. Money
d. Titles
Pain looks good on other people; that's what they're for.
::)Final Examination
;DProf. ETM Solmerano
Multiple ChoiceA. ANTIGONE
1. Who wrote “Antigone”?
a. Socrates
b. Sophocles
c. Shakespeare
d. Aristotle
2. The play “Antigone”:
a. melodrama
b. tragedy
c. farce
d. comedy
3. “Antigone” is set in:
a. Athens
b. Colonus
c. Thebes
d. Sparta
4. The purpose of the chorus is to:
a. dance
b. sing
c. chant
d. comment
5. Creon believes that:
a. Distinguished citizens should help run the government.
b. Democracy rules!
c. The people have a right to participate in their government.
d. The ruler of a state has total power.
6. Why does Creon order Polyneices’ body left unburied?
a. Creon does not believe in burying the dead.
b. Polyneices was fighting against Thebes when he died.
c. Creon always hated Oedipus, Polyneices father.
d. Creon has always disliked him.
7. Which of the following happen first?
a. Duh.
b. Antigone is brought to Creon by the sentry.
c. Ismene comes to share the blame for Polyneices’ burial.
d. Haemon tries to persuade his father to change his mind about Antigone’s punishment.
8. How does Creon react to the news that someone has performed burial ceremonies over Polyneices’ body?
a. He is furious.
b. He is very understanding.
c. He is apathetic.
d. He is forgiving.
9. What assumption does Creon make about Polyneices’ burial?
a. The gods must have buried Polyneices.
b. Antigone must have done it.
c. Someone must have been bribed to do it.
d. All of the above
10. What is the main reason Antigone insists on burying Polyneices?
a. She does not want vultures to eat Polyneices’ body.
b. If left unburied, Polyneices’ body will stink.
c. If left unburied, Polyneices’ body will not be among the honored dead.
d. Polyneices is her brother.
11. Who asks the question: “So you chose flagrantly to disobey my law?”
a. Creon
b. Choragos
c. Haemon
d. Tiresias
12. Why does Creon punish Antigone?
a. Antigone is a woman.
b. Antigone has committed treason.
c. Antigone has broken the law by burying her brother.
d. All of the above
13. What punishment does Creon impose on Antigone?
a. She is to be deflowered.
b. She is to be stoned.
c. She is to be crucified.
d. She is to be buried alive in a cave and left to die.
14. How does Antigone characterize her actions?
a. She believes she acted honorably.
b. She claims to have acted in ignorance.
c. She knows she acted disgracefully.
d. She claims herself to be innocent.
15. Which would you infer is more important to Antigone?
a. Her honor
b. Her pride
c. Her life
d. Her groom
16. General Robert E. Lee once said: “You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.” Lee’s words may be said to describe one of the themes of “Antigone” written centuries earlier.
a. She must choose whether to support Eteocles or follow Polyneices.
b. She must decide whether to marry Haemon or break her engagement to him.
c. She must choose whether to bury her brother or obey the king.
d. She must whether to be faithful to her bridegroom or faithful to the king.
17. Which of the following is a FACT not an opinion?
a. Antigone freely admits her guilt
b. Creon must be correct about Polyneices because he is a king
c. Polyneices is a selfish young man.
d. Antigone should have obeyed the King’s edict.
18. Which statement sums up how Ismene sees the position of women in society?
a. Men and women are equals in all respect.
b. Women should rule men.
c. Women should be submissive to men.
d. Women should stand up for what they know to be right.
19. In Act 3, the Chorus predicts King Creon’s downfall: “…when the heavens curse a house, each generation finds its doom. And now the House of Oedipus shall crumble.” In Act 4, Creon has an angry and revealing exchange of words with his son:
a. ambition
b. lust
c. pride
d. greed
20. Which of the following expresses an OPINION, not a fact?
a. Haemon is young.
b. Haemon offers Creon advice.
c. Haemon is an honorable man.
d. All of the above
21. Which of the following events leads to the other two?
a. Creon sentences Antigone to be buried alive in a cave.
b. Haemon commits suicide.
c. Eurydice kills herself.
d. This question is not right.
22. Which of these statements is a FACT, not an opinion?
a. Ismene is right when she refuses to help Antigone.
b. Creon thinks Antigone is foul and evil.
c. If a mind changes his mind, he shows weak character.
d. None of the above
23. Which event is the RESULT of the other two?
a. Antigone buries Polyneices.
b. Haemon threatens never to see Creon again.
c. Creon punishes Antigone.
d. Duh.
24. In the cave, Haemon:
a. forgives his father
b. tries to stab his father
c. begs his father for forgiveness
d. ignores his father
25. Which of the following statements expresses an OPINION, not a fact?
a. Antigone should have followed the laws of her country.
b. Haemon breaks with his father over Antigone’s sentence.
c. Ismene is not punished by Creon.
d. None of the above
26. What does Tiresias mean when he tells Creon, “…once more you stand upon the razor’s edge”?
a. He means Creon will fall on a sharp cliff.
b. He means Creon must make up his mind.
c. He means Creon is on the brink of a dangerous course of action.
d. He means Creon’s words are sharp and hurtful.
27. Who says: “Give death his due and do not kick a corpse”?
a. Ismene
b. Antigone
c. Tiresias
d. Haemon
28. What does Tiresias mean when he asks Creon, “Where is renown to kill a dead man twice”?
a. Speaking ill of a dead man brings no fame to the speaker.
b. Creon will win the popular vote by burying Polyneices.
c. It is impossible to kill a dead man twice.
d. Creon will be honored for leaving Polyneices unburied.
29. What happens immediately after Tiresias’ prophecy?
a. Haemon kills himself.
b. Creon buries Polyneices.
c. Creon goes to free Antigone.
d. None of the above
30. Why does Creon reconsider Antigone’s punishment?
a. Haemon threatens him with civil war.
b. Antigone admits that she was wrong.
c. His conscience bothers him.
d. Tiresias’ prophesies the death of his son because of Antigone’s sentence.
31. Which of the following states a FACT?
a. Tiresias is a very patient man.
b. After Tiresias’ prediction, Creon goes to free Antigone.
c. Creon should have listened to his son.
d. Antigone wins a noble death by burying Polyneices.
32. What is the function of the messenger in the play?
a. To announce the terrible events that happened offstage.
b. To entertain the audience
c. To comment on the situations or characters onstage.
d. To carry messages from one character to another.
33. Which event occurs LAST?
a. Haemon kills himself.
b. Antigone dies.
c. Eurydice kills herself.
d. Polyneices was buried by Creon.
34. Whom does Creon hold responsible for the tragic events in the play?
a. his son
b. Antigone
c. himself
d. The gods
35. Which description best fits Creon at the end?
a. a bitter father
b. a proud ruler
c. a content uncle
d. a sorrowful man
B. MACBETH
The Tragedy of Macbeth
36. Who are the two traitors at the beginning of the play?
a. Malcolm and Donalbain
b. Macdonwald and the Thane of Cawdor
c. Macduff and Glamis
d. Glamis and Cawdor
37. 'Stars hide your fires', is one of the many light/dark images. Who said this line?
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Macbeth
d. The witches
38. Who remarks 'there's husbandry in heaven their candles are all out'?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. Lady Macbeth
d. Duncan
39. What, according to Macbeth, is the 'chief nourisher in life's feast'?
a. Friendship
b. Honour
c. Sleep
d. Love
40. Who or what was the 'filthy witness' mentioned by Lady Macbeth immediately after Duncan's assassination?
a. Daggers
b. Duncan's chamberlains
c. The Porter
d. Blood
41. Whom did Macbeth slay so that he would become king of Scotland?
a. Dumaine
b. Malcolm
c. Duncan
d. Dolphy
42. What is the missing word in this Macbeth quote?
"Vaulting ----, which o'erleaps itself and fails on the other".
a. power
b. pride
c. ambition
d. aspiration
43. Macbeth says:
"Bring me no more reports; let them fly all: Till ---- wood remove to Dunsinane".
What is the name of the wood?
a. Beech
b. Birnam
c. Cawdor
d. Caithness
44. "All the perfumes of ---- will not sweeten this little hand"
says Lady Macbeth. What is the missing word?
a. Albania
b. The apothecary
c. The Orient
d. Arabia
45. Who speaks the line "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"?
a. Macbeth
b. Banquo
c. The Witches
d. The Sergeant
46. Have the witches the power of life and death?
a. Yes
b. No
47. Complete Duncan's comment, "There's no ... to find the mind's construction in the face".
a. Way
b. Art
c. Method
d. Skill
48. Did Lady Macbeth intend to kill Duncan herself?
a. Yes
b. No
49. Who spoke these lines on the battlements, "How goes the night, boy?"
a. Duncan
b. Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. Lady Macbeth
50. What fatal decision did Banquo make at the beginning of Act 3?
a. Kept his suspicions to himself
b. Made himself an easy target
c. Believed the witches
d. All of these aforementioned
51. Which apparition upset Macbeth the most?
a. Armoured head
b. Crowned child
c. Eight kings
d. Bloody child
52. Who was Queen of the Witches?
a. Cassiopeia
b. Gorgonia
c. Hecate
d. Minerva
53. Who said this? "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
a. Lady Macbeth
b. the doctor
c. Macbeth
d. Fleance
54. Who says this? "If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not..".
a. Macbeth
b. Lady Macbeth
c. Banquo
d. the witches
55. Who was Siward?
a. King of Scotland
b. Earl of Northumberland, head of English forces
c. Thane of Ireland
d. Scottish doctor
56. Who was Seyton?
a. Friend
b. Thane
c. Servant
d. Soldier
57. How many soldiers did the King of England give Malcolm to help him fight Macbeth?
a. 20,000
b. 10,000
c. 5,000
d. 1,000
58. Who spoke these lines: 'And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death'
a. Lady Macbeth
b. Macduff
c. Macbeth
d. Malcolm
59. How many people did Macduff kill at the end of the play?
a. Two
b. One
c. Three
d. Five
60. What reward did Malcolm promise his thanes for their help in re-gaining his throne?
a. Land
b. Jobs
c. Money
d. Titles
Pain looks good on other people; that's what they're for.