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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oedipus ask Teiresias to do, after Teiresias says Oedipus is the murderer?
(a) repeat what he's said
(b) leave Thebes immediately
(c) fight him
(d) fall on his knees and pray

2. What does Oedipus ask about Polybus' death?
(a) what the cause of his death was
(b) what Polybus said before his death
(c) what time of day he died
(d) whether his mother knows of the death

3. Who leads Teiresias into Oedipus' presence?
(a) Jocasta
(b) Creon
(c) a small boy
(d) the chorus leader

4. What does the chorus leader say he does not know about Oedipus'scharges against Creon?
(a) whether Creon understand the charges Oedipus made
(b) Oedipus's steadiness and state of mind when making the charges
(c) what charges Oedipus made against Creon
(d) whether Teiresias was there when Oedipus made the charges

5. What does Jocasta chide Oedipus and Creon for?
(a) not listening to each other
(b) fighting when the town's in trouble
(c) not listening to the oracle
(d) making the gods upset

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jocasta bring to the shrine of Apollo outside the castle gates?

2. What does Jocasta say about human prophecy?

3. What does the chorus leader rebuke both Oedipus and Teiresias for?

4. Who does the shepherd say gave him the infant child?

5. What nationality does Oedipus say the mother who raised him was?

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