Oedipus Rex Scene 1

Who is Creon?

• He is Oedipus’s brother and second in command in Thebes.
• He is Oedipus’s eldest son.
• He is Iocaste's (Oedipus’s wife’s) brother
• He is co-squad leader.

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

• Iocaste
• Creon
• Laius
• The oracle 

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Who is Laius?

• Oedipus's eldest son
• Creon's brother
• Iocaste's first husband
• a prophet

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Oedipus berates his people with regard to King Laius because:

• they gave the crown to Oedipus so soon after the king’s death.
• they showed no respect for the king because they held no funeral rite in his honor.
• no statue was erected in King Laius’s memory.
• if the oracle had not commanded it, they would have ignored their king’s murderer.

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

• Creon
• Teiresias
• Iocaste
• Apollo

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When Oedipus asks the prophet to reveal the name of the murderer, what is the prophet’s response?

• Although Teiresias knows the answer, it is better that no one else ever learns the truth.
• The king was never murdered at all; he is still alive in another land.
• He claims that Iocaste murdered her husband.
• He claims that he does not know because Apollo has kept the name from him.

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Who does the prophet finally reveal as the murderer of King Laius, the "pollution" of the city?

• Iocaste
• Creon
• Teiresias
• Oedipus

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Who does Oedipus accuse of being behind a plot to destroy him?

• Iocaste
• Teiresias
• Apollo
• Creon

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What stage of a tragic hero is shown in scene 2? 

• catharisis
• hamartia 
• anagnorisis
• peripetia 

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What does Oedipus think of prophecy and Tiresias?

• He thinks Tiresias is a fraud because he didn't solve the riddle.
• He thinks Tiresias is close to being a god.
• He thinks Tiresias and Iocaste plotted against him.
• All of the above.

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