20 points.
read the passage.
ismene, dear sister,
you would think that we had already suffered enough
for the curse on oedipus:
i cannot imagine any grief
that you and i have not gone through.
what antigone make the dangerous decision to bury her brother, despite the known consequences?
a. antigone cannot imagine that her own death could be worse than the death of oedipus.
b. antigone believes that she is doomed, due to her father's sin, and accepts it wholeheartedly.
c. antigone wants to teach ismene a lesson for being so weak-willed and knows that ismene would be hurt by antigone's death.
d. antigone, as a strong woman, wants to undermine creon's male authority.

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community