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Oedipus Rex Test Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Why have the priests come to the altar at Thebes? want Oedipus' help with the plague How did Oedipus once liberate Thebes? Solving the riddle of the sphinx Why is Creon away from Thebes when the story opens? Oedipus sent him aw...

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Why have the priests come to the altar at Thebes?
want Oedipus' help with the plague


How did Oedipus once liberate Thebes?
Solving the riddle of the sphinx


Why is Creon away from Thebes when the story opens?
Oedipus sent him away to go find out why Thebes is having trouble.


According to Creon, what does Apollo want done?
Revenge


How was Laius killed?
Oedipus Killed him


Why wasn't the death of the king fully investigated?
Sphinx came along and they couldn't leave Thebes


Members of the Chorus
elders of Thebes


Summarized prayer by the 1st chorus
pray to the Gods for help in each of their strengths


What reward does Oedipus offer for information about the murder
Person gets to leave town


Punishment Oedipus threatens for withholding information
he will kill them, deny all the fruit of the earth,wretched life in evil, curses them


Why did Oedipus send for Tiresias
so he can detect the criminal


Why didn't Tiresias come immediately when Oedipus sent for him?
Tiresias doesn't want to be the one to tell the truth, Oedipus will be rash


Why does Oedipus first grow angry with Tiresias?
he will not tell him anything


What accusation does Tiresias make against Oedipus
murdering the king

, Why does Oedipus grow angry with Creon
because Creon accused Oedipus


What prediction does Tiresias make?
whoever it is has to be blind and not from here


How do the people feel about the accusations Tiresias and Oedipus are making?
They were unsure trying to decide who was right, they believe it is Oedipus because he saved them
from the sphinx


What does Oedipus think that Creon is plotting?
he believes Creon is plotting to murder


Why does Creon share Oedipus's power?
Oedipus married Creon's sister


Why didn't Creon want to be king?
he believes he needs no honors, to much anxiety, he's fine in the position he's in


Why does Creon tell Oedipus to go to Delphi?
he wants Delphi to support him in what he said


what advice does Jocasta give to her quarreling husband and brother?
to let it go and go separate ways


Why does Oedipus release Creon
chorus convinces them that Creon had not done anything wrong


what is Jocasta's proof that humans cannot prophecy the future
her son did not fulfill thee prophecy and he died


why is Oedipus so disturbed by Jocasta's description of the prophecy about her child and her account
of Laius' death
the story is so familiar


what favor did Jocasta grant the slave who witnessed the murder
he was sent away because he begged Jocasta to ket him go


who were polybus and merope
Oedipus's foster parents, King and Queen of Corinth


why did the drunken man's story bother Oedipus

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