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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. _______ rescues Oedipus and raises him to adulthood.
(a) Ismene.
(b) A farmer.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) A fisherman.

3. What is the name of Laius' son?
(a) Oedipus.
(b) Pelops.
(c) Antigone .
(d) Eteocles.

4. The Oracle foretells Laius that Oedipus would one day ______ him.
(a) Blind.
(b) Kill.
(c) Lie.
(d) Imprision.

5. After Oedipus' adopts father is killed, Oedipus seeks revenge and kills _______ .
(a) the Oracle of Apollo.
(b) the King of Argos.
(c) Laius.
(d) Jocasta.

Short Answer Questions

1. As punishment for his crime, if Laius fathered any children, what would happen to the city of Thebes?

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

3. Plays in ancient Greece are produced as part of what type of ceremony?

4. Who punishes Laius for kidnapping and murdering his friend's son?

5. Plays based on Greek legend usually involve a generation after generation repeating a ______.

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