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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deal does Oedipus offer the murderer if he gives himself in?
(a) Oedipus offers to banish the murderer instead of killing him.
(b) Oedipus offers the murderer a place in Corinth in exchange for banishment from Thebes.
(c) Oedipus offers to limit the murderer's banishment.
(d) Oedipus offers the murderer his choice of death or banishment.

2. What does Oedipus say the killers had to have?
(a) financial help from Thebes
(b) a promise of reward from Corinth
(c) a dictate from a god
(d) a dictate from a prophet

3. What argument does Oedipus offer that Teiresias is not really a prophet?
(a) Teiresias is only faking blindness.
(b) Teiresias's prophecies conflict with the oracle.
(c) Teiresias did not answer the Sphinx's riddle.
(d) Teiresias changes his prophesies from one day to the next.

4. What is Creon's relationship to Oedipus?
(a) no relation
(b) father-in-law
(c) brother
(d) brother-in-law

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Creon say stopped the city from looking into the king's death?

2. Who leads Teiresias into Oedipus' presence?

3. What does Oedipus call the people of Thebes?

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

5. Who does Oedipus accuse Teiresias of being in league with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Oedipus listen to Teiresias?

2. How does Oedipus respond to the townspeople's pleas for help?

3. What troubles have affected the people of Thebes?

4. How does Oedipus' attitude toward Teiresias change during their first discussion?

5. What rumor does the chorus leader remind Oedipus of?

6. What reason does Teiresias give for coming to see Oedipus?

7. Why are the people of Thebes reluctant to think Oedipus guilty of a crime?

8. What does Oedipus accuse Teiresias of, that finally forces the prophet's tongue?

9. What does Oedipus wish for any townspeople who don't obey his orders?

10. What does Oedipus wish on the murderer?

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