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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tiresias unable to do in the second act of "Oedipus"?
(a) Raise Laius' ghost.
(b) Authenticate Oedipus' royal blood.
(c) Save Jocasta's life.
(d) Explain the Oracle's prophecy.

2. What is Phaedra doing in the beginning of the fifth act?
(a) Attempting suicide.
(b) Seducing Theseus.
(c) Mourning Hippolytus.
(d) Cutting and burning her hair.

3. In what sort of garb is Phaedra's nurse dressed in the third act?
(a) Wedding dress.
(b) Hunting garb.
(c) Mourning garb.
(d) Priestess robes.

4. Upon what were Thyestes' sons sacrificed?
(a) The weapons of their ancestors.
(b) An altar.
(c) Their grandfather's tomb.
(d) A pyre.

5. What does Oedipus wish upon the murderer of Jocasta's late husband?
(a) Subjection to an angry mob of Laius' subjects.
(b) His prophecy from Apollo.
(c) Torment from Hades.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose priests gave Oedipus the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother?

2. How was young Tantalus murdered?

3. Where does Andromache hide her son?

4. About what does Hector warn Andromache in a dream?

5. What does the nurse show Theseus when he demands to know why Phaedra is determined to die in the third act?

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