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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jocasta question the chorus about, after Creon leaves?
(a) the progress toward finding Laius's murderer
(b) the interview between Oedipus and Teiresias
(c) the state of the farms and the townspeople
(d) what happened between Oedipus and Creon

3. What does Oedipus say about his future?
(a) He will live forever.
(b) He must have a strange destiny.
(c) He will die of his heartache.
(d) He will die of some simple disease.

4. What is Jocasta's answer, when Oedipus asks how tall and old Laius was?
(a) Laius was old and bent, but tall.
(b) Laius was small with a gray beard.
(c) Laius was skinny and tall and young-looking.
(d) Laius was big and had white hair.

5. How has Teiresias' pronouncement made the chorus feel?
(a) sorrowful
(b) irritated
(c) angry
(d) fearful

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creon say Oedipus can do, if he finds proof Creon's lying?

2. What does Teiresias say Oedipus doesn't know?

3. Who does Creon want to consult before he does what Oedipus desires?

4. What does Oedipus foresee will happen to his daughters?

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

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