Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King Quizzes

Oedipus Rex or Oedipus the King Quiz 1

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1 What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play?

Accusing Oedipus

Sacrificing to the Sphinx

Asking Teiresias for help

Asking the gods for help
2 Why is the priest doing this?

There is a plague on the city

Oedipus asked him to

It's a holiday

The Sphinx has attacked the city
3 Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play?

To a crossroads

To the Pythian oracle

To be banished from Thebes

To Corinth
4 What does Creon report?

That Laius's killer must be found

That Jocasta's son must be found

That he will kill his father and marry his mother

That Teiresias killed Laius
5 What should happen to the man they will find?

He must be banished or killed

He must become the next king

He must be put in jail

He must be sacrificed to the Sphinx
6 Why didn't anyone investigate Laius's murder at the time?

The Sphinx was attacking the city

They didn't want anyone to know that Oedipus did it

There was a blight on the city

Jocasta went into labor
7 What does Oedipus announce to the Theban people?

That if anyone knows who killed Laius, he should come forward

That he too will be punished if he helps the killer

That if any man confesses, he will only be banished

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?

Jocasta

The sphinx

A shepherd

Teiresias
10 What does Teiresias say when he arrives?

That he will not tell who did it

That the Sphinx did it

That Creon did it

That Jocasta did it
11 How does Oedipus respond when Teiresias charges him with killing Laius?

He accuses Creon of killing Laius

He calls Teiresias a blind fool

He accuses Teiresias of conspiring with Creon

All of the above
12 What does Teiresias say will happen to Oedipus?

He will leave Thebes in triumph

He will leave Thebes a blind beggar

He will marry Antigone

He will kill himself
13 What does Oedipus ask Creon?

Why Teiresias is blind

Why Teiresias conspired with the Sphinx

Why Jocasta married Laius

Why Teiresias didn't say anything at the time of Laius's death
14 Does Creon say he wants to be king?

Yes

Only if Oedipus rules with him

Only if he can marry Jocasta

No
15 What does Jocasta convince Oedipus to do to Creon?

Forgive him

Banish him

Kill him

Abandon him
16 What does Jocasta attempt to prove to Oedipus?

That Teiresias is really his father

That the oracles are always right

That Creon killed Laius

That there is no truth in prophesy
17 What does she say she did with her baby?

She drowned it in the well

She sacrificed it on the altar of Athena

She left it exposed on a mountain

She gave it to her maid to raise
18 Where was Laius killed?

At a crossroads

At the battle of Troy

In his bath

In jail
19 Why does Jocasta's story upset Oedipus?

He fought at Troy

He killed a man at a crossroads

His father was killed in a similar way

He was a witness to this death
20 What made Oedipus go to the oracle when he was young?

Teiresias told him to

Creon tried to kill him

His parents told him to

A man called him a bastard
21 What did the oracle tell Oedipus?

That his mother was Jocasta

That he would kill his father and marry his mother

That he would become blind

That he should stay away from Thebes
22 Why did Oedipus leave Corinth?

He was summoned to kill the Sphinx

He was afraid of what the oracle said

He was angry at the oracle

He wanted to find his real dad
23 What is Jocasta doing the next time she leaves the palace?

Running away from Thebes

Killing her children

Burying evidence

Praying to the gods
24 What news does the messenger bring from Corinth?

That Corinth wants Oedipus to be its king

That Polybus is dead

That Polybus was not Oedipus's father

All of the above
25 Who gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope?

Jocasta

The messenger

The Sphinx

Teiresias

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