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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plays in ancient Greece are produced as part of what type of ceremony?
(a) A religious festival.
(b) A pilgrimage.
(c) A eulogy.
(d) An offering.

2. Plays based on Greek legend usually involve a generation after generation repeating a ______.
(a) Resistance.
(b) Fable.
(c) Crime.
(d) Story.

3. Who is the King of Thebes in the beginning of the Background?
(a) Polyneices.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Eteocles.
(d) Laius.

4. Who solves the Riddle of the Spinx?
(a) Laius.
(b) Oedipus.
(c) Polyneices.
(d) Ismene.

5. The story that "Seven Against Thebes" is based on is part of their background as a ____________.
(a) American.
(b) German.
(c) Englishmen.
(d) Greek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who conspires to kill Oedipus at the end of the Background section?

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

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

4. Laius is regarded as a _______ in the city of Thebes.

5. _______ rescues Oedipus and raises him to adulthood.

(see the answer key)

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