Q 01/05

A South African play about two cellmates rehearsing Antigone is set in a prison modelled on which notorious jail?

A) Pollsmoor Prison

B) Pretoria Central

C) Robben Island

D) Constitution Hill

Answer · why

C) Robben Island

Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held, is the clear model for the unnamed prison in The Island. One inmate plays Antigone and the other plays C...

Q 02/05

Which queen of Thebes was both mother and grandmother to Antigone, having unknowingly married her own son?

A) Jocasta

B) Merope

C) Hecuba

D) Phaedra

Answer · why

A) Jocasta

Jocasta bore Oedipus to King Laius, and years later the two married with neither knowing who the other was. Their four children included Antigone and ...

Q 03/05

How does Antigone die inside the rocky vault where Creon has had her sealed alive in Sophocles' play?

A) She starves slowly

B) She hangs herself

C) She drinks poison

D) She stabs herself

Answer · why

B) She hangs herself

She hangs herself with a noose of fine linen, so Creon's change of heart comes too late. He reaches the tomb to find his son clinging to her body.

Q 04/05

How is Creon, the new king of Thebes, related to Antigone in the tragedy by Sophocles?

A) Her stepfather

B) Her cousin

C) Her grandfather

D) Her uncle

Answer · why

D) Her uncle

Her uncle Creon is her mother's brother, and he took the throne only because both male heirs had just died. He is also due to become her father-in-law...

Q 05/05

How do the two brothers of Antigone die in the war for the throne of Thebes?

A) They kill each other

B) Creon executes them both

C) A plague takes them

D) They drown at sea

Answer · why

A) They kill each other

They kill each other on the same day, leaving no male heir to rule. Creon then honours the brother who defended the city and shames the one who attack...