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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Oedipus say the killers had to have?
(a) a dictate from a prophet
(b) a dictate from a god
(c) a promise of reward from Corinth
(d) financial help from Thebes

3. What is Oedipus' attitude toward Teiresias when he first speaks to the prophet?
(a) defensive and annoyed
(b) deferential and complimentary
(c) angry and ironic
(d) derisive and snide

4. Who accused Oedipus of not being his father's real son?
(a) his cousin, son of his mother's sister
(b) a stranger passng through the town
(c) the local prophet
(d) a drunk man at a dinner

5. Where did Laius order his infant child to be put?
(a) in a field
(b) in the ocean
(c) in a river
(d) on a mountain

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was the father who raised Oedipus from?

2. What was Oedipus' response to the information he got from the oracle at Delphi, when he asked about his parentage?

3. What does Creon say about the god's call to avenge Laius' death now?

4. What does Oedipus say he has to fear from Laius' murderer?

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

(see the answer key)

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