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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nationality does Oedipus say the mother who raised him was?
(a) Dorain
(b) Ionian
(c) Macedonian
(d) Aeolian

2. What does Oedipus ask, when Jocasta tells Oedipus the messenger's news?
(a) He asks the messenger to tell him the news himself.
(b) He asks a servant to bring Creon to him.
(c) He asks a servant to bring Teiresias to him.
(d) He asks Jocasta to leave him and go to the palace.

3. What does Oedipus seem to think Jocasta is afraid of learning about his birth?
(a) that he's older than they believed
(b) that he's of low social status
(c) that he's Polybus' son after all
(d) that he's not born of natural parents

4. What does Creon do initially when he hears Oedipus charged him with causing Teiresias to lie?
(a) talks to the people of Thebes
(b) flees the city of Thebes
(c) makes a counterclaim of treason against Oedipus
(d) challenges Oedipus to a fight

5. What deal does Oedipus offer the murderer if he gives himself in?
(a) Oedipus offers the murderer his choice of death or banishment.
(b) Oedipus offers the murderer a place in Corinth in exchange for banishment from Thebes.
(c) Oedipus offers to banish the murderer instead of killing him.
(d) Oedipus offers to limit the murderer's banishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What possible explanation does the chorus leader give for Oedipus' charge against Creon?

2. What does Creon say Oedipus should do to get proof of Creon's innocence?

3. What does Oedipus decree that no citizen of Thebes shall do?

4. What does Jocasta ask Oedipus to do regarding her brother?

5. What does Teiresias say Oedipus doesn't know?

(see the answer key)

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