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

2. How does Teiresias respond when Oedipus says the prophet speaks in riddles?
(a) that Oedipus is good at solving riddles
(b) that the truth is as complex as a riddle
(c) that Oedipus will wish this riddle were never solved
(d) that life is a riddle

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

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

5. What does Oedipus decree that no citizen of Thebes shall do?
(a) talk or gossip about the murder
(b) pray to any god but Apollo until the murderer is found
(c) shelter, talk, or consort with the murderer
(d) leave the town until the murderer is found

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jocasta come to pray to Apollo?

2. What does Creon say his current position brings?

3. What does the chorus leader think of Oedipus' curses on the murderer?

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

5. What does Teiresias answer when Oedipus asks the identity of his father?

(see the answer key)

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