Oedipus Final Test UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Oedipus Final Test UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
She runs from the room and hangs herself (commits suicide) - CORRECT ANSWER-
After Oedipus attacks Jacosta for trying to keep him quiet, how does she react?
the gods - CORRECT ANSWER- Besides himself, with whom is Oedipus angry with...
Oedipus Final Test UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
She runs from the room and hangs herself (commits suicide) - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔After Oedipus attacks Jacosta for trying to keep him quiet, how does she react?
the gods - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Besides himself, with whom is Oedipus angry with and
blame for his circumstances?
dramatic irony - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔"O make us clean!" Jocasta states. The audience
is aware that she can never be clean, for she married her son and also sent him off to his death
when he was just a baby. Which literary device is this?
dramatic irony - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oedipus states about Laius, "I know--but not of
my own knowledge, for I never saw him." Of what is this an example?
his two daughters, Ismene and Antigone. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔For whom does
Oedipus ask after he blinds himself?
Herdsman 1/Messenger 1 (From Thebes) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔For whom does
Oedipus send after he learns of the messenger's story?
His feet are bound in a spancel (usually used on animals) when he is only a baby of three
days old - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How do Oedipus's feet get scarred?
She tries to get him to be quiet and let it go because she knows the truth will destroy them
both - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How does Jacosta (at first) react when she realizes who
Oedipus is?
a drunk man at a banquet tells him that he is not - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How does
Oedipus first get an inkling that he is not the son of Merope and Polybus?
, He thinks she is ashamed of his "lowly" birth because he has yet to realize that he is the baby
she gave away. He thinks he was born to one not royal. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How
does Oedipus react to Jacosta wanting him to not pursue the truth?
He solves the riddle of the evil Sphinx terrorizing the town. - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔How does Oedipus save the city of Thebes, become king, and come to marry Jacosta?
He wants to leave; and he does not want to tell that Oedipus is the baby that he saved from
Jacosta and Laius. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How does the Herdsman (survivor of
Oedipus's rage and ironically the shepherd that saved baby Oedipus) act after he arrives at the
palace?
The herdsman /shepherd 1 gives the baby to a shepherd from the house of Polybus. This
second shepherd (who is eventually a messenger from the house of Polybus) gives the baby
Oedipus to Polybus and Merope. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How is Oedipus saved?
2 boys, 2 girls - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔How many children do Oedipus and Jocasta have
together?
Greece - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔In which country does the play Oedipus take place?
Thebes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Of which city is Oedipus king?
He runs to his royal bedroom, finds Jacosta hanging, takes her down, removes her brooch
from her dress and gouges out his eyes. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Once Oedipus realize
the truth of his birth, what does he do?
They should not be punished for his crimes; they should remain barren; they should not be
beggars. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What are Oedipus's wishes for his daughters?
The murder of Laius must be solved. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔What does Creon tell
Oedipus that the oracle says must be done to solve the blight/famine?
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