Oedipus The King Quiz Questions
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Select the correct answer for the following questions.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play?
- A.
Asking for money
- B.
Accusing Creon
- C.
Asking Teiresias for help
- D.
Asking the gods for help
- 2.Why is the priest doing this?
- A.
The priest is poor
- B.
It's a holiday
- C.
Creon asked him to
- D.
There is a plague on the city
- 3.What is Creon’s relationship to Jocasta?
- A.
Son
- B.
Uncle
- C.
Father
- D.
Brother
- 4.Who was the blind prophet?
- A.
Teiresias
- B.
Polybus
- C.
Oedipus
- D.
Creon
- 5.What does Tiresias tell Oedipus?
- A.
That Jocasta killed Laius
- B.
That Oedipus killed Laius
- C.
That Creon killed Laius
- D.
That Polybus killed Laius
- 6.How does Oedipus react to Tiresias's announcement?
- A.
He thinks Creon is behind it.
- B.
He thinks Jocasta told Tiresias waht to say
- C.
He thinks Tiresias is drunk
- D.
He thinks Jocasta and Creon are working together against Oedipus
- 7.Whom did Oedipus believe was his father?
- A.
Creon
- B.
The blind prophet
- C.
Polybus
- D.
Merope
- 8.Who is Oedipus's mother?
- A.
Antigone
- B.
Jocasta
- C.
Merope
- D.
None of the above
- 9.From whose curse did Oedipus rescue Thebes?
- A.
Creon's
- B.
Lauis's
- C.
Sphinx's
- D.
Jocasta
- 10.By the end of the play, Oedipus knows he has killed whom?
- A.
Creon
- B.
Jocasta
- C.
Lauis
- D.
The blind prophet
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