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Oedipus Test Review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Creon - CORRECT ANSWER- I have never longed for the king's power, only the rights of the nobility. Chorus - CORRECT ANSWER- I have called upon both Apollo & Bacchus to intervene to heal the city. Priest - CORRECT ANSWER-...

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Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Creon - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I have never longed for the king's power, only the rights
of the nobility.


Chorus - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I have called upon both Apollo & Bacchus to intervene
to heal the city.


Priest - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I speak for the entire city of Thebes in asking Oedipus to
find a remedy for the plague


Jocasta - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I try to comfort Oedipus by telling of the death of a son
and of the failure of his prophecy coming true


Surviving Servant/Shepherd - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I begged to be sent far away to the
frontier after Oedipus became king


Sphinx - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔I am referred to as "the cruel singer," "the dark singer,"
and the "prosecutor"


"Where 3 roads meet" - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is the place of Laius' death



Corinth - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔This is the place Oedipus thinks he was born



"Robbers" - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔These are said to have attacked Laius on the road/
killed him


Attendant/Second Messenger - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Recounts to the people of Thebes
the death of Jocasta and the self-mutilation of Oedipus

, The Messenger from Corinth - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Brings news that King Polybus is
dead


Hanging - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Method by which Jocasta commits suicide



Chorus - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔One who comforts Oedipus as he emerges from the
palace after blinding himself and finding Jocasta dead


Exile - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Oedipus' punishment he meted out to himself in
accordance with his earlier proclamation


To care for his daughters - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Personal promise and request that
Oedipus asks of Creon


Creon - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔New King of Thebes



No one should take the comfort of their lives for granted - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Final
caution of the chorus at the exit of the play


The shepherd/herdsman from Thebes

Incorrect - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Tells how the queen sent her son to die in the
mountains and he saved him


Gouging out his eyes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔method of self-mutilation by oedipus


Pride will bring man's downfall and will be punished by the gods - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔a continuing motif throughout the play



Where was Oedipus really born/left to die? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Cithaeron


Who gave both Oedipus' prophecy and the answer to Thebes? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔the Oracle of Delphi

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