Oedipus the King Test

Who is Oedipus?

• The King of Thebes

• Jocasta's Brother

• The King of Corinth

• The Oracle at Delphi

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How did Oedipus save Thebes once before?

• Solving the riddle of the Sphinx
• Finding Laius' murderer
• Fulfilling the phrophecy
• Destroying the horcruxes

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Who is Creon?

• He is Oedipus’s brother and second in command in Thebes.
• He is Oedipus’s eldest son.
• He is Jocasta’s, Oedipus’s wife’s brothe
• He is co-squad leader.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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

• Jocasta
• Creon
• Laius
• Bilbo

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Who is Laius?

• Oedipus's eldest son

• Creon's brother

• Jocasta's first husband/ First King

• a prophet

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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

• they were too busy trying to defeat the Sphinx that was terrifying Thebes.

• they thought they already knew the truth.

• Jocasta told the people that she was distraught enough without learning more.

• everyone who tried to learn the truth ended up dead.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is ironic about Oedipus’s declaration of the curse against Laius’s murderer?

• The true murderer is already dead.

• Oedipus is pronouncing his own doom.

• Oedipus has no power to punish a foreign criminal.

• The Theban elders already know who the murderer is.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

What blind prophet does the Chorus suggest could help Oedipus locate the whereabouts of the murderer?

• Creon

• Teiresias

• Jocasta

• Apollo

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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 Jocasta murdered her husband.
• He claims that he does not know because Apollo has kept the name from him.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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

• Jocasta
• Creon
• Teiresias
• Oedipus

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10