OEDIPUS REX REVIEW QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Teiresias ANSW✅✅Blind prophet led by a small boy, Apollo's oracle
(Character Traits: Wise, Attentive)
Paradox: Although he's blind, he can see better than any of those around him.
Creon ANSW✅✅Jocasta's brother, Shares one third of Thebes's riches with Oedipus and Jocasta.
Devout follower of the oracle of Apollo
(Character Traits: Loyal, Forgiving, Believer)
Loyal friend to Oedipus, and remains forgiving and kind to Oedipus even when Oedipus turns on him
and suggests he is conspiring against him.
Takes over Thebes after Oedipus' exile.
Ismene and Antigone ANSW✅✅Oedipus's young daughters, led out at the end of the play.
Oedipus laments the fact that they will never find husbands with such a cursed lineage
Begs Creon to take care of them.
Chorus of Theban Elders ANSW✅✅A group of men who serve as an emotional sounding board
and expositional device in the play, reflecting on the plot developments while asking important
philosophical questions.
(Comment on the play's action and foreshadow future events, larger impact of the characters'
actions and expound play's central themes.)
Give choral odes on everything from tyranny to the dangers of blasphemy.
Herdsman ANSW✅✅Gives Laius' and Jocasta's baby to the messenger upon their orders - and is
also the same man who witnessed Laius's death.
When he returns to Thebes and sees the man who killed Laius is the new king, he asks to flee from
the city.
Reveals that the baby he gave to the messenger was Oedipus, adding one of the last pieces to the
puzzle that implicates Oedipus as the source of the kingdom's plague.
Genre ANSW✅✅Tragic Play
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Teiresias ANSW✅✅Blind prophet led by a small boy, Apollo's oracle
(Character Traits: Wise, Attentive)
Paradox: Although he's blind, he can see better than any of those around him.
Creon ANSW✅✅Jocasta's brother, Shares one third of Thebes's riches with Oedipus and Jocasta.
Devout follower of the oracle of Apollo
(Character Traits: Loyal, Forgiving, Believer)
Loyal friend to Oedipus, and remains forgiving and kind to Oedipus even when Oedipus turns on him
and suggests he is conspiring against him.
Takes over Thebes after Oedipus' exile.
Ismene and Antigone ANSW✅✅Oedipus's young daughters, led out at the end of the play.
Oedipus laments the fact that they will never find husbands with such a cursed lineage
Begs Creon to take care of them.
Chorus of Theban Elders ANSW✅✅A group of men who serve as an emotional sounding board
and expositional device in the play, reflecting on the plot developments while asking important
philosophical questions.
(Comment on the play's action and foreshadow future events, larger impact of the characters'
actions and expound play's central themes.)
Give choral odes on everything from tyranny to the dangers of blasphemy.
Herdsman ANSW✅✅Gives Laius' and Jocasta's baby to the messenger upon their orders - and is
also the same man who witnessed Laius's death.
When he returns to Thebes and sees the man who killed Laius is the new king, he asks to flee from
the city.
Reveals that the baby he gave to the messenger was Oedipus, adding one of the last pieces to the
puzzle that implicates Oedipus as the source of the kingdom's plague.
Genre ANSW✅✅Tragic Play
