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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jocasta's answer, when Oedipus asks how tall and old Laius was?
(a) Laius was old and bent, but tall.
(b) Laius was skinny and tall and young-looking.
(c) Laius was small with a gray beard.
(d) Laius was big and had white hair.

2. Where did the old shepherd grow up?
(a) in Laius' house
(b) in a poor house in Thebes
(c) in Corinth
(d) in a distant village

3. What did Oedipus' parent say about the accusation that Oedipus was not their son?
(a) Oedipus's father denied it, but his mother admitted it.
(b) They told Oedipus that it was true.
(c) They were angry, calling it an insult.
(d) They said it was untrue, but they seemed to be lying.

4. What does Creon say stopped the city from looking into the king's death?
(a) a plague on the crops
(b) a war with Corinth
(c) a storm that destroyed the town
(d) trouble with the Sphinx

5. What does Creon say has caused the disasters to the town?
(a) a slight to the gods
(b) an unavenged murder
(c) a fight between protecting gods
(d) an unfulfilled prophecy

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creon do initially when he hears Oedipus charged him with causing Teiresias to lie?

2. What made Oedipus angry, when he encountered the stranger's carriage on the road?

3. Why does Oedipus say his sorrow is greater than the townspeople?

4. What does Oedipus seem to think Jocasta is afraid of learning about his birth?

5. Does the messenger identify the shepherd as the man he mentioned earlier?

(see the answer key)

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