
Wait...what happened in the Oedipus Story?
Authored by Rebecca Dietz
English
8th Grade

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When Oedipus was a baby, an ORACLE tells his parents [King Laius and Queen Jocasta] that lil baby Oedipus will grow up to ----
kill his father
marry his mother
both of these are correct
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When Oedipus' father Laius hears the oracle, he decides to---
run away
kill his wife
leave his baby on a mountainside to die
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Lil baby Oedipus is found on the mountainside by a shepherd and taken to live with ---
sheep
King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth
his cousins
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Oedipus learns his fate told by the oracle [the whole kill dad/marry mom thing] and tries to run away, thinking that Polybus and Merope are his parents. Instead, he runs into---
sheep
his biological father, Laius--and he kills him, not knowing it's his biological father
the river
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
While "running from his fate," he also earns the throne of Thebes by answering a riddle of the Sphinx. And that makes him the NEW husband of....
sheep
Antigone
Jocasta, his biological mother
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
For several years Oedipus and Jocasta are married, having no idea that they are mother and son, until they learn the truth from...
sheep
Tiresias, a blind prophet
Antigone
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
After Oedipus finds out he was married to his mom and killed his dad after all, he decides to...
stab out his own eyes
throw a party
divorce his mom/wife
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