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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Scene 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Creon accuse Oedipus of?
(a) being stubborn and forgetting common sense
(b) framing him to cover Oedipus's own crimes
(c) being power hungry and greedy
(d) being stupid and not the one to answer the Sphinx's riddle

2. What city was the father who raised Oedipus from?
(a) Thebes
(b) Sparta
(c) Corinth
(d) Athens

3. What does Oedipus ask Teiresias to do, after Teiresias says Oedipus is the murderer?
(a) repeat what he's said
(b) leave Thebes immediately
(c) fall on his knees and pray
(d) fight him

4. In the encounter between Oedipus and the stranger in the carriage, what was the initial violent act?
(a) The stranger struck Oedipus with his sword.
(b) The stranger whipped Oedipus.
(c) Oedipus whipped the stranger.
(d) The herald struck Oedipus with his sword.

5. What reason does Teiresias give for not answering Oedipus' questions?
(a) He does not believe his own visions.
(b) He doesn't want to cause them both grief.
(c) He knows the truth, but the gods have told him not to say.
(d) He isn't sure about what he knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Creon, who does a witness say killed Laius?

2. What does Creon say of the news he brings?

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

4. What gives Oedipus hope that he did not kill Laius?

5. What is Oedipus' initial reaction when Creon asks to explain himself?

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