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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oedipus' initial attitude toward the crowd that has gathered?
(a) caring and helpful
(b) overjoyed and cheerful
(c) critical and derisive
(d) angry and annoyed

2. What does Oedipus tell Jocasta, when she begs him to tell her what's troubling him?
(a) He agrees to tell her his worries.
(b) He tells her that there is nothing troubling her.
(c) He yells at her and sends her into the palace.
(d) He refuses to tell her, since what he suspects is so bad.

3. Who does the priest ask to come as the people's savior?
(a) Creon
(b) Oedipus
(c) Laius
(d) Phoebus

4. How is the tale of Oedipus and the Sphinx treated in the town?
(a) People only remember the story in times of trouble.
(b) People still tell the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx.
(c) People have already forgotten what Oedipus has done for them.
(d) Oedipus constantly forces the town to hear the story again.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Teiresias say about his own wisdom, after Oedipus questions him about Laius' murderer?

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

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

4. What does Creon accuse Oedipus of?

5. What is Jocasta's answer, when Oedipus asks how tall and old Laius was?

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