Oedipus Unit Test Review

What is Oedipus' prophecy?

• Kill Mom and marry Dad

• Kill Dad and marry Mom

• Defeat the Sphinx

• Gouge out his eyes

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Where does the play take place?

• Mt. Cithaeron

• Corinth

• Phocis

• Thebes

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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 wrote the play?

• Sophocles

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

Who are Oedipus' birth parents?

• Polybus & Merope

• Zeus & Hera

• Lauis & Jocasta

• The Shepherd & his unnamed wife

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What did Oedipus defeat when he answered the riddle?

• Centaur

• Faun

• Minotaur

• Sphinx

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What disability does Oedipus that also reveals his story?

• Talltail stutter

• Telltale Limp

• Glass eyes

• a hook for a hand

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CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does Oedipus mean?

• "cankles"

• "bigfoot"

• "swollen foot"

• "limp foot"

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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

Who was Tiresias?

• a mute singer

• a deaf monk

• a hunchback bell ringer

• a blind prophet

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Because of Thespis of Icaria, actor/actresses are also called:

• Icarians

• Sons of Thespis

• Thespians

• Just actors

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?

• Mankind/the life cycle of Man

• Cyclops

• Satyrs

• Phoenix

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9