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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 Oedipus tell the messenger he regrets about leaving Corinth?
(a) not seeing his parents
(b) having met Creon
(c) having met Jocasta
(d) having taken on the burden of ruling Thebes

2. What does the chorus leader rebuke both Oedipus and Teiresias for?
(a) being angry and quarrelling instead of finding the murderer
(b) not talking with Creon
(c) not talking with Jocasta
(d) not listening to each other and talking at cross purposes

3. When Oedipus was rushing around the palace in agony after finding out the truth about himself, what did he ask his servants for?
(a) a rope
(b) poison
(c) a sword
(d) a cup

4. What is Creon wearing on his head as he approaches the town?
(a) a hood
(b) a crown
(c) a chain of daisies
(d) a laurel wreath

5. What does Oedipus ask of the three roads that meet where he killed his father?
(a) if they will rise up and come to Thebes
(b) if they will burst into flames at the sin that occurred there
(c) if they remember him and what he's done
(d) if they will bury themselves in the mountain, never to emerge

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipus say about his future?

2. What does Oedipus accuse Creon of?

3. What does Oedipus ask of the mountain, Cithaeron?

4. What does Creon say his current position brings?

5. What does the priest say that Oedipus will be king of, if he doesn't solve the town's problems?

(see the answer key)

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