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

2. Where did the old shepherd grow up?
(a) in a distant village
(b) in Corinth
(c) in Laius' house
(d) in a poor house in Thebes

3. What is the position of the chorus, as stated by the chorus leader, in the conflict between Oedipus and Creon?
(a) Oedipus should not judge Creon prematurely.
(b) Oedipus needs to question Teiresias more closely.
(c) Oedipus needs to defend himself.
(d) Oedipus should resign as king.

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

5. When Creon turns the tables and begins questioning Oedipus, what is the first question he asks?
(a) whether there is some unknown explanation for Teiresias's information
(b) whether the townspeople believe Oedipus is guilty
(c) whether Oedipus is married to Creon's sister
(d) whether Oedipus killed Laius

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jocasta say about human prophecy?

2. What part of her and Laius' infant child does Jocasta say Laius bound?

3. Where did the messenger find the infant Oedipus?

4. Who asks the old shepherd whether he gave an infant baby to the messenger years ago?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first thing Oedipus tells Jocasta, when he tells her about the argument between himself and Creon?

2. What does the old shepherd say was his motive in giving the infant to the messenger, when they were both shepherds together?

3. How did Polybus die?

4. What prophecy does Jocasta tell Oedipus about?

5. How does Creon seem to react to Oedipus leveling charges against him?

6. Why does Oedipus question how his father could love him?

7. What favor did Jocasta do for the person who told her about Laius' death?

8. What main news does the messenger from Corinth bring?

9. What did the oracle at Delphi tell Oedipus about his parentage?

10. How does the chorus react to Creon's self defense?

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