View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before he leaves, what does Oedipus say will happen?
(a) The gods will decide the outcome, and the murderer's fate is in their hands.
(b) The murderer will definitely be caught and punished.
(c) Either the murderer will be caught and punished, or else they will all be ruined.
(d) The whole town, and Oedipus himself, will definitely be ruined.

2. What city was the father who raised Oedipus from?
(a) Corinth
(b) Sparta
(c) Athens
(d) Thebes

3. How does the second messenger say Jocasta died, when the chorus leader questions him?
(a) Her children killed her.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) Oedipus killed her.
(d) She died fleeing the palace.

4. What argument does Oedipus offer that Teiresias is not really a prophet?
(a) Teiresias is only faking blindness.
(b) Teiresias did not answer the Sphinx's riddle.
(c) Teiresias changes his prophesies from one day to the next.
(d) Teiresias's prophecies conflict with the oracle.

5. What does the chorus want to know from Oedipus when he emerges from the palace?
(a) how he could allow his wife to come to harm
(b) how he could show himself to them in his shame
(c) how he could blame the gods for his own faults
(d) how he could blind himself

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jocasta say Laius had with him, as an escort?

2. Who speaks for the people of Thebes as their leader?

3. What does the old shepherd fear will happen to him if he tells the truth?

4. When Creon turns the tables and begins questioning Oedipus, what is the first question he asks?

5. What does Creon deny that he has a desire to do?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 335 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample