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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 ask, when Jocasta tells Oedipus the messenger's news?
(a) He asks Jocasta to leave him and go to the palace.
(b) He asks a servant to bring Teiresias to him.
(c) He asks the messenger to tell him the news himself.
(d) He asks a servant to bring Creon to him.

2. What does Oedipus seem to think Jocasta is afraid of learning about his birth?
(a) that he's Polybus' son after all
(b) that he's of low social status
(c) that he's not born of natural parents
(d) that he's older than they believed

3. Who does Jocasta send for after hearing the messenger's news?
(a) the oracle
(b) Oedipus
(c) Teiresias
(d) Creon

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

5. Does the messenger identify the shepherd as the man he mentioned earlier?
(a) Yes, but the messenger must question the shepherd before being certain.
(b) Yes, the messenger identifies him easily.
(c) No, the messenger knows it's him but won't identify him.
(d) No, the messenger doesn't think he's the same man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipus suggest the people of Thebes might do to him, as alternatives to sending him out of Thebes?

2. What does Oedipus wish for the man who unshackled his ankles when Oedipus was an infant?

3. Why does Oedipus say his sorrow is greater than the townspeople?

4. How does Oedipus say Polybus and Corinth raised him?

5. What was Oedipus' response to the information he got from the oracle at Delphi, when he asked about his parentage?

(see the answer key)

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