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Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King Quiz 1
1.
What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play?
Asking the gods for help
Accusing Oedipus
Asking Teiresias for help
Sacrificing to the Sphinx
2.
Why is the priest doing this?
Oedipus asked him to
There is a plague on the city
The Sphinx has attacked the city
It's a holiday
3.
Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play?
To Corinth
To the Pythian oracle
To be banished from Thebes
To Delphi
4.
What does Creon report?
That Jocasta's son must be found
That Teiresias killed Laius
That he will kill his father and marry his mother
That Laius's killer must be found
5.
What should happen to the man they will find?
He must be put in jail
He must become the next king
He must be sacrificed to the Sphinx
He must be banished or killed
6.
Why didn't anyone investigate Laius's murder at the time?
Jocasta went into labor
There was a blight on the city
They didn't want anyone to know that Oedipus did it
The Sphinx was attacking the city
7.
What does Oedipus announce to the Theban people?
That if any man confesses, he will only be banished
That he too will be punished if he helps the killer
That if anyone knows who killed Laius, he should come forward
All of the above
8.
Who is rumored to have killed Laius?
Teiresias
Jocasta
Robbers
All of the above
9.
Who does Creon advise Oedipus to send for?
A shepherd
Teiresias
The sphinx
Jocasta
10.
What does Teiresias say when he arrives?
That he will not tell who did it
That the Sphinx did it
That Jocasta did it
That Creon did it
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