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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plays based on Greek legend usually involve parents and children doing what?
(a) Kill each other.
(b) Losing contact with each other.
(c) Praising each other.
(d) Growing old together.

2. At the end of the first year, what does Eteocles refused to do?
(a) Fight the war.
(b) Feed the hungry.
(c) Find a wife.
(d) Give up the throne.

3. Any citizen in the _____ would know the story, or myth, that "Seven Against Thebes" is based on.
(a) Play.
(b) World.
(c) Audience.
(d) Chorus.

4. Who conspires to kill Oedipus at the end of the Background section?
(a) The Spinx.
(b) King of Argos.
(c) Eteocles and Polyneices.
(d) Ismene.

5. In the opening of the Background, Laius has kidnapped, assaulted and murdered ______ son?
(a) Eteocles'.
(b) Oedipus'.
(c) Pelops'.
(d) Polyneices'.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Oracle foretells Laius that Oedipus would one day ______ his mother.

2. What does Laius do to baby Oedipus after hearing the Oracle foretell Oedipus' future?

3. What is the name of Laius' son?

4. _______ rescues Oedipus and raises him to adulthood.

5. Who persuades his father-in-law to join with him and win the throne of Thebes by force?

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