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Oedipus, The King By Sophocles

Multiple Choice: I will tell you the choices, you will tell me the letter.

Who is Creon?

Who does Oedipus send to Delphi to learn how to save Thebes?

Who is Laius?

No one attempted to find the truth about what happened to Laius because:

What promise does Oedipus make to anyone who comes forward with information about Laius’s murder?

Who does the Chorus suggest could help Oedipus locate the whereabouts of the murderer?

Who does the prophet finally reveal as the murderer of King Laius?

Oedipus berates his people with regard to King Laius because:

Multiple Choice: I will tell you the choices, you will tell me the letter.

Why is Creon upset at the opening of Scene 2?

What is Oedipus’s reaction to hearing that Laius was killed in a place where the three highways met?

Why had Oedipus fled Corinth many years before?

According to Ode II, what can be said about the hearts of mortals?

Multiple Choice: I will tell you the choices, you will tell me the letter.

How does Oedipus react to the Corinthian messenger’s news?

Who does Oedipus claim to still fear in Corinth?

What revelation does the messenger make to Oedipus?

Who begs Oedipus to forget about finding the truth of his parentage?

Whose “great days [are] like ghosts gone?

Multiple Choice: I will tell you the choices, you will tell me the letter.

How did the shepherd and the messenger know each other?

How does the shepherd react when the messenger states that King Oedipus was the baby the shepherd had given him?

Who had originally given the infant to the shepherd?

Multiple Choice: I will tell you the choices, you will tell me the letter.

What news does the second messenger bring?

What takes the messenger’s attention away from the sin in the Queen’s room?

What does Oedipus do after he held Jocasta in his arms?

What finally becomes of Oedipus?

On this test you will be required to write ONE paragraph and cite at least 3 examples or evidence to support your topic sentence.

Be sure to STUDY FOR THE TEST! Bring a #2 pencil and pen, please.