Oedipus Test Review

Vocabulary

• a foretelling/prediction of the future

• Prophecy

• official order issued by legal authority

• Inference

• Making a conclusion based on evidence

• Inexorable

• impossible to stop or prevent

• Decree

• disastrous evil -sickness, death

• Plague

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is happening in the city of Thebes at the beginning of the play?

• There is a plague of sickness and death in the city

• Oedipus becomes king

• Oedipus is born to the King and Queen

• Thebes threw a party for the new king

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

How is Oedipus instructed to relieve Thebes of the plague?

• Spray the city with plague repellant

• Pray to the gods for help

• Find + expel or kill the person who murdered King Laius

• Ask the people of Thebes to move to a new town

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

What does Oedipus do to find out who killed the former king?

• Send Creon to Teiresias, the blind prophet, to find the answer.

• Asks the townspeople what they know

• Hikes to the top of Mt. Cithaeron to ask the gods

• Accuses his best friend of being the killer

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

What does Teiresias tell Oedipus about what happened to King Laius?

• He found the killer in a cave

• He knows how he died but doesn't know who the killer is

• He believes the killer ran away

• Oedipus is the killer

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

How does Oedipus respond when Teiresias tells the truth of what happened to King Laius?

• He cries and runs away

• He gouges his eyes out

• He accuses Creon of bribing Teiresias to say these things so he could become king.

• He kills Teiresias for accusing him

How does Jocasta feel about the oracle & why?

• She believes in the powers of the oracles because an old prophesy they told her and King Laius came true regardless of them trying to control fate.

• She doesn't believe in the powers of the oracles because an old prophesy they told her and King Laius could not have come true due to them trying to control fate.

• She feels like the oracle is crazy for saying such a thing

• She gets angry with the oracle and curses his name

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What does the messenger from Corinth tell Jocasta when he arrives in Thebes?

• That Queen Merope was dead

• That King Laius was actually alive and had been living in Corinth

• That Oedipus needed to move back home to prevent a war

• That King Polybus was dead

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who are Oedipus' real parents?

• King Oedipus and Queen Jocasta

• King Laius and Queen Jocasta

• King Polybus and Queen Merope

• King Zeus and Queen Aphrodite

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

How does Jocasta respond to finding out the truth of Oedipus' parentage?

• She faints and wakes up to realize she was in a dream the whole time

• She gets angry with Oedipus and kills him

• She kills herself

• She cries to the gods and asks for them to take it all away