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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Oedipus accuse Teiresias of being in league with?
(a) Apollo
(b) the oracle
(c) Jocasta
(d) Creon

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

3. What argument does Oedipus offer that Teiresias is not really a prophet?
(a) Teiresias did not answer the Sphinx's riddle.
(b) Teiresias changes his prophesies from one day to the next.
(c) Teiresias is only faking blindness.
(d) Teiresias's prophecies conflict with the oracle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Oedipus feel linked to Laius?

2. What does Oedipus ask Teiresias to do, after Teiresias says Oedipus is the murderer?

3. Why does Oedipus say he's not punishing Teiresias?

4. Who does the priest say has gathered?

5. What does Creon say stopped the city from looking into the king's death?

(see the answer key)

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