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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 a crossroads

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 the Sphinx did it
  • That Jocasta did it
  • That Creon did it
  • That he will not tell who did it

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