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Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is significant about the fact that the first line of the play is a question? - answercreates a dismal mood, the questioning also prepares us for a play of mystery How does Oedipus choose the spokesman of the group of supplicants? - answerHe chooses the oldest person What is your first impression of oedipus? - answerHe is arrogant What problem is afflicting Thebes at the time? - answerA strange plague is causing sickness and sufferin...

Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is significant about the fact that the first line of the play is a question? - answercreates a dismal mood, the questioning also prepares us for a play of mystery How does Oedipus choose the spokesman of the group of supplicants? - answerHe chooses the oldest person What is your first impression of oedipus? - answerHe is arrogant What problem is afflicting Thebes at the time? - answerA strange plague is causing sickness and sufferin...

Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is significant about the fact that the first line of the play is a question? - answercreates a dismal mood, the questioning also prepares us for a play of mystery How does Oedipus choose the spokesman of the group of supplicants? - answerHe chooses the oldest person What is your first impression of oedipus? - answerHe is arrogant What problem is afflicting Thebes at the time? - answerA strange plague is causing sickness and sufferin...

What has the priest come to ask of Oedipus? - collect answer-The priest wants Oedipus to save Thebes from the sickening pandemic plaguing the city. (page 4) "Thebes is tossed on a murdering sea/ And can not lift her head from the death surge."-Priest (page 10) "may he descend/Himself to save us and drive out the plague." -Priest Where does the story take place? - collect answer-The story takes place in Thebes. Describe the story of the Sphinx - collect answer-When the king of Thebes...

Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is the situation in Thebes at the beginning of the play? - answerThere is a pestilence in the city, and the people are sick and dying. What news does Creon bring to Oedipus? - answerOedipus must find the killer of former King Laius to save the city. According to Creon, what happened to the former king, Laius? - answerRobbers/thieves killed King Laius while King Laius was out of Thebes (on a pilgrimage). What does Oedipus decide to d...

Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is the situation in Thebes at the beginning of the play? - answerThere is a pestilence in the city, and the people are sick and dying. What news does Creon bring to Oedipus? - answerOedipus must find the killer of former King Laius to save the city. According to Creon, what happened to the former king, Laius? - answerRobbers/thieves killed King Laius while King Laius was out of Thebes (on a pilgrimage). What does Oedipus decide to d...

Oedipus Rex Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What is the situation in Thebes at the beginning of the play? - answerThere is a pestilence in the city, and the people are sick and dying. What news does Creon bring to Oedipus? - answerOedipus must find the killer of former King Laius to save the city. According to Creon, what happened to the former king, Laius? - answerRobbers/thieves killed King Laius while King Laius was out of Thebes (on a pilgrimage). What does Oedipus decide to d...

WGU C100 HUMANITIES FINAL EXAM 2024 What play was written by the Greek dramatist Sophocles? - correct answer Oedipus Rex What Poet wrote Iliad? - correct answer Homer Greek Architecture was based on what structure? - correct answer Post and Lintel The Greek building most reveared for its use of Ratio and Perspective is? - correct answer The Parthenon Geek plays generally shown in a ? - correct answer Ampitheater Roman Engineering allowed the ______________ to have the larges...

English Oedipus Rex Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Solved What type of play is Oedipus Rex? Greek tragedy When is this play from? 5th century BC What is significant about this play? - an issue of morality and moral reasoning - serves as the prototype for tragedy -explores depth of human suffering and reaction - audience experiences growth in own understanding of what it means to be human -focus of the play is on Oedipus's self discovery Tragedy -dramatic art -int...