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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Oedipus angry, when he encountered the stranger's carriage on the road?
(a) The stranger's entourage tried to arrest Oedipus for being a vagrant on the road.
(b) The stranger asked Oedipus why he had left his parents' home.
(c) The stranger and his entourage tried to force Oedipus off the road.
(d) The stranger insulted Oedipus as they passed each other.

2. Who does the chorus leader say should reveal the murderer?
(a) Oedipus
(b) Laius
(c) Apollo
(d) Creon

3. What does Jocasta chide Oedipus and Creon for?
(a) fighting when the town's in trouble
(b) not listening to the oracle
(c) not listening to each other
(d) making the gods upset

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

5. What does Creon say stopped the city from looking into the king's death?
(a) a storm that destroyed the town
(b) a war with Corinth
(c) a plague on the crops
(d) trouble with the Sphinx

Short Answer Questions

1. What simile does Jocasta use to describe the people of Thebes?

2. What course of action does the chorus leader suggest Oedipus should take?

3. What reason does Oedipus shout as he pokes out his own eyes?

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

5. Why does Jocasta come to pray to Apollo?

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