Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King Quizzes

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