Oedipus Test Study Guide ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Oedipus Test Study Guide ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is a good thing that Oedipus has done for his people of Thebes? - CORRECT
ANSWER- He saved them from the Phoenix
"By exile or death, blood for blood. It was Murder that brought the plague - wind on the city."
- CORRECT ...
Oedipus Test Study Guide ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is a good thing that Oedipus has done for his people of Thebes? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔He saved them from the Phoenix
"By exile or death, blood for blood. It was Murder that brought the plague - wind on the city."
- CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Creon
"The herds are sick; children die unborn, and labor is vain." - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Priest
"No, I have been in tears for a long while and in my restless thought walked many ways." -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oedipus
Oedipus - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A king who has trouble within being envied and is not
a good king overall, to want to leave Thebes
Creon - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The brother of Jocasta
Laius - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A previous king who was believed to have died from
Oedipus
Thebes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The place where Thebans lived and where Oedipus was
born
Jocasta - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Wife of Laius and sister of Creon
Why does Teiresias not want to talk to Oedipus? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Because
Oedipus is not telling the truth, just to lie to himself
, Relationship between Oedipus and Teiresias? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔They are fighting
each other, for almost no solution to be found
"Until now I was a stranger to this tale, As I had been a stranger to the crime? - CORRECT
ANSWER- ✔✔Oedipus
"You mock my blindness, do you? But I say to you, with both your eyes, are blind." -
CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Teiresias
"This day will give you a father and break your heart." - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Teiresias
Relation from Creon to Oedipus. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Being an enemy to him, to
fight over what Oedipus has done
Why does Oedipus asks Creon questions? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Because he wants to
find out how Laius died
Why does Oedipus urge the Chorus not to punish Creon? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔Because Creon is a wise man when it came to the truth
Did Creon charge Oedipus? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔No
What could be true? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oedipus's son could've been the one to kill
Laius
Why did Oedipus flee from Corinth? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Because he could not sleep
within being talked behind his back of not being the father's son
Why could Oedipus have killed the King Laius? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Because he
was very upset, since he was most hated by gods and that he was not allowed to ride the
chariot
Who does Oedipus rely on to keep record straight? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Choragos
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