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

2. What was Oedipus' response to the information he got from the oracle at Delphi, when he asked about his parentage?
(a) Oedipus asked the oracle for more clarity.
(b) Oedipus ran away from Corinth.
(c) Oedipus went to ask his parents about it.
(d) Oedipus confined himself to a room in his father's palace.

3. What does Jocasta ask Oedipus to do regarding her brother?
(a) trust that Creon is telling the truth
(b) make her responsible for Creon
(c) send Creon away instead of killing him
(d) hold Creon in prison until he can discover the truth

4. Who does the shepherd say gave him the infant child?
(a) Laius
(b) Jocasta
(c) Laius's servant
(d) Jocasta's maid

5. In the encounter between Oedipus and the stranger in the carriage, what was the initial violent act?
(a) Oedipus whipped the stranger.
(b) The stranger whipped Oedipus.
(c) The stranger struck Oedipus with his sword.
(d) The herald struck Oedipus with his sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the chorus think it's time for the murderer to flee?

2. Where did the old shepherd grow up?

3. What does Oedipus say that he still fears, after hearing the news of Polybus' death?

4. What reason does Teiresias give for not answering Oedipus' questions?

5. What does Teiresias say about his own wisdom, after Oedipus questions him about Laius' murderer?

(see the answer key)

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