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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the chorus want to know from Oedipus when he emerges from the palace?
(a) how he could allow his wife to come to harm
(b) how he could blind himself
(c) how he could blame the gods for his own faults
(d) how he could show himself to them in his shame

2. At the end of the scene, what does Oedipus ask the people to stand up and take?
(a) their suppliant branches
(b) arms
(c) the news to the outlying farms
(d) pity on him in his misery

3. What does Oedipus say the chorus' position will result in?
(a) Creon becoming a tyrannt
(b) Oedipus' exile or death
(c) war with Corinth
(d) destruction of Thebes

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

5. What does Oedipus ask of Creon?
(a) He asks Creon to forgive him for Jocasta's death.
(b) He asks Creon to kill him.
(c) He asks Creon to banish him.
(d) He asks Creon to spare his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the messenger's profession when he found the infant Oedipus?

2. What does Jocasta chide Oedipus and Creon for?

3. Before Teiresias leaves, what does he say about the murderer's nationality?

4. What does Oedipus tell Jocasta, when she begs him to tell her what's troubling him?

5. What is the position of the chorus, as stated by the chorus leader, in the conflict between Oedipus and Creon?

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