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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the townspeople who are not gathered to speak with Oedipus?
(a) in the fields, trying to cure the diseases
(b) at home, caring for the sick
(c) in their graves
(d) at the gods' shrines asking for help

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

3. How does Oedipus react to the chorus' pleas?
(a) Oedipus decides not to change his decision, though the chorus makes him doubtful.
(b) Oedipus is convinced by the chorus and gladly does what they ask.
(c) Oedipus gives in to the chorus unwillingly, foreseeing doom to himself.
(d) Oedipus refuses to listen to the chorus.

4. What city was the father who raised Oedipus from?
(a) Athens
(b) Thebes
(c) Sparta
(d) Corinth

5. What does Oedipus wish for himself, if he unknowingly hosted the murderer at his home?
(a) to be ripped from his land and family
(b) all the bad things he wished upon the murderer
(c) eternal damnation
(d) a life of solitude and sobriety

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest point out about Oedipus overcoming the Sphinx?

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

3. What does Creon say of the news he brings?

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

5. Who does the chorus think can help end the conflict between Creon and Oedipus?

(see the answer key)

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