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WorksheetsOedipus Background
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The play begins "in medias res," which is a literary technque where the author....
ends the play with tragedy.
begins the play in the middle of things.
uses figurative language.
uses rhetoric to prove a character's worth.
What is Oedipus' biological mother's name?
Jocasta
Merope
Tiresias
Sarah
What is Oedipus' biological father's name?
Laius
Polybus
Oedipus Sr.
John
Oedipus was told by a drunk guy that he was adopted.
True
False
When Oedipus arrives in ____________, a Sphinx is holding the city under a spell and has cursed it with a plague.
Thebes
Corinth
Raleigh
Athens
Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx. She dies and Thebes is freed from the plague.
True
False
Oedipus marries...
No one. He remains single.
Jocasta, Laius' surviving wife (and Oedipus' birth mother).
Merope, his mother.
Crean, his brother-in-law.
Travel was difficult for the ancient greek people because...
...the horses were thin and weak.
...of the heat.
...of the mountainous terrain.
...food was hard to find.
When the play opens, twenty years have passed since Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx and freed the city of the plague. Now there is a new_______ in the city of Thebes.
famine
plague
war
flood
Dramatic irony exists when...
when a character knows what another character does not.
the audience knows what a character knows.
the audience knows something that a character does not.
when what is said is different from what is meant.
Hubris is...
when the reader knows something that a character does not.
a way of showing gratitude.
excessive wealth that leads to destruction.
excessive pride which is considered a tragic flaw.
Oedipus means....
swollen foot
king to be
arrogant man
murderer
Imagery is...
the time and place of a story.
writing that helps the reader hear something.
writing that helps the reader visualize the scene.
writing that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
