Oedipus Rex Test Part 1 Questions &
Answers 2025/2026
"Men of Thebes:/I am told that heavy accusations/Have been brought against me by King
Oedipus/I am not the kind of man to bear this tamely." - ANSWERSCreon
My children, generations of the living/In the line of Cadmus, nursed at his ancient hearth/Why
have you strewn yourselves before these altars/In supplication with your boughs and garlands? -
ANSWERSOedipus
No man questions your power to rule the land:/But rule over men, not over a dead city -
ANSWERSPriest
Then I will tell you what I heard at Delphi./In plain words/The god commands us to expel from
the land of Thebes/An old defilement we are sheltering - ANSWERSCreon
You shall see how I stand by you, as I should/ To avenge the city and the city's god/ And not as
though it were for some distant friend/But for my own sake, to be rid of evil - ANSWERSOedipus
Your own eyes must tell you/ Thebes is tossed on a murdering sea and cannot lift her head from
the death surge - ANSWERSChorus
"Until now I was a stranger to this tale,/ As I had been a stranger to the crime. -
ANSWERSOedipus
And as for those who fail me,/May the gods deny them the fruit of the earth,/Fruit of the
womb, and may they rot utterly! - ANSWERSOedipus
, A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo,/As we all know, is the skilled Teiresias/One might learn
much about this from him, Oedipus - ANSWERSChorus
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!" -
ANSWERSTeiresias
You child of endless night! You cannot hurt me/Or any other man who sees the sun -
ANSWERSOedipus
The Delphic stone of prophecies/Remembers ancient regicide and a still bloody hand/That
killer's hour of flight has come - ANSWERSchorus
For wisdom changes hands among the wise/Shall I believe my great lord criminal/At a raging
word that a blind old man let fall? - ANSWERSChorus
As matters stand, I have my way in everything with your consent, and no responsibilities. If I
were king, I would be a slave to policy - ANSWERSCreon
"Poor foolish men, what wicked din is this?/With Thebes sick to death, is it not shameful/That
you should rake some private quarrel up?" - ANSWERSJocasta
Respect Creon's word. He has never spoken like a fool,/ And now he has sworn an oath/A friend
so sworn should not be baited so/In blind malice, and without final proof - ANSWERSChorus
Set your mind at rest/If it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you/ That you will find no man
whose craft gives knowledge/Of the unknowable - ANSWERSJocasta
Now if that stranger and Laius were-kin/Where is a man more miserable than I/More hated by
the gods? - ANSWERSOedipus
Answers 2025/2026
"Men of Thebes:/I am told that heavy accusations/Have been brought against me by King
Oedipus/I am not the kind of man to bear this tamely." - ANSWERSCreon
My children, generations of the living/In the line of Cadmus, nursed at his ancient hearth/Why
have you strewn yourselves before these altars/In supplication with your boughs and garlands? -
ANSWERSOedipus
No man questions your power to rule the land:/But rule over men, not over a dead city -
ANSWERSPriest
Then I will tell you what I heard at Delphi./In plain words/The god commands us to expel from
the land of Thebes/An old defilement we are sheltering - ANSWERSCreon
You shall see how I stand by you, as I should/ To avenge the city and the city's god/ And not as
though it were for some distant friend/But for my own sake, to be rid of evil - ANSWERSOedipus
Your own eyes must tell you/ Thebes is tossed on a murdering sea and cannot lift her head from
the death surge - ANSWERSChorus
"Until now I was a stranger to this tale,/ As I had been a stranger to the crime. -
ANSWERSOedipus
And as for those who fail me,/May the gods deny them the fruit of the earth,/Fruit of the
womb, and may they rot utterly! - ANSWERSOedipus
, A lord clairvoyant to the lord Apollo,/As we all know, is the skilled Teiresias/One might learn
much about this from him, Oedipus - ANSWERSChorus
"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!" -
ANSWERSTeiresias
You child of endless night! You cannot hurt me/Or any other man who sees the sun -
ANSWERSOedipus
The Delphic stone of prophecies/Remembers ancient regicide and a still bloody hand/That
killer's hour of flight has come - ANSWERSchorus
For wisdom changes hands among the wise/Shall I believe my great lord criminal/At a raging
word that a blind old man let fall? - ANSWERSChorus
As matters stand, I have my way in everything with your consent, and no responsibilities. If I
were king, I would be a slave to policy - ANSWERSCreon
"Poor foolish men, what wicked din is this?/With Thebes sick to death, is it not shameful/That
you should rake some private quarrel up?" - ANSWERSJocasta
Respect Creon's word. He has never spoken like a fool,/ And now he has sworn an oath/A friend
so sworn should not be baited so/In blind malice, and without final proof - ANSWERSChorus
Set your mind at rest/If it is a question of soothsayers, I tell you/ That you will find no man
whose craft gives knowledge/Of the unknowable - ANSWERSJocasta
Now if that stranger and Laius were-kin/Where is a man more miserable than I/More hated by
the gods? - ANSWERSOedipus
