Oedipus Test Review

Oedipus Test Review

10th Grade

22 Qs

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Oedipus Test Review

Oedipus Test Review

Assessment

Quiz

English

10th Grade

Easy

CCSS
RL.11-12.3, RL.9-10.10, RI.9-10.4

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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Vocabulary

official order issued by legal authority

Inference

disastrous evil -sickness, death

Plague

Making a conclusion based on evidence

Prophecy

impossible to stop or prevent

Inexorable

a foretelling/prediction of the future

Decree

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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