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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the position of the chorus, as stated by the chorus leader, in the conflict between Oedipus and Creon?
(a) Oedipus should resign as king.
(b) Oedipus needs to defend himself.
(c) Oedipus needs to question Teiresias more closely.
(d) Oedipus should not judge Creon prematurely.

2. What does Oedipus ask Creon about Teiresias?
(a) how long Teiresias has lived in Thebes
(b) whether Teiresias makes a profit from the town because of his prophesies
(c) why Teiresias didn't give the identity of Laius' murderer at the time of the death
(d) how long Teiresias has been blind

3. What does Teiresias say makes him strong?
(a) his powers
(b) the truth
(c) the gods
(d) anger

4. Who does Teiresias say he serves?
(a) Creon
(b) Apollo
(c) Oedipus
(d) Zeus

5. How does Oedipus say Polybus and Corinth raised him?
(a) as a monster with a true heart
(b) meaning the best, but unlucky by fate
(c) distorted inside and out
(d) fine to look at, but corrupt inside

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Oedipus ask to be taken?

2. How does Oedipus react to Teiresias' unwillingness to speak?

3. What does Oedipus ask of the mountain, Cithaeron?

4. In the encounter between Oedipus and the stranger in the carriage, what was the initial violent act?

5. What does Oedipus ask, when Jocasta tells Oedipus the messenger's news?

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