Oedipus Rex Test Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025

Oedipus Rex Test Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers 2024/2025 What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play? - answerasking for help Why is the priest asking for help? - answerThe city is suffering Creon is Oedipus's... - answerbrother-in-law The blight in Thebes has affected all of the following EXCEPT: - answerthe water supply Who was king before Oedipus? - answerLaius How did the previous king die? - answerkilled by a band of robbers What is the cause of the plague? - answeran unsolved murder Who is Teiresias? - answera blind prophet Creon arrives on the scene early in the play. Where had he been? - answerTo consult the oracle Oedipus accuses Creon of... - answerjealousy Creon doesn't want to be king. He gives all of the following reasons EXCEPT: - answerthe job appears to be too hard Who / What did Jocasta tell Oedipus he shouldn't believe? - answerTeiresias What did an oracle long ago tell Laius? - answerthat his own son would kill him How old was Laius' son when he (the son) died? - answer3 days old How did the son die? - answerleft on a mountainside to die What did Jocasta tell Oedipus that upset him? - answerLaius was killed at a spot where three roads meet What happened to the witness to Laius' death? - answerHe took a new job Long ago, why did Oedipus leave the city of Corinth? - answerHe wished to escape his parents What did Oedipus do long ago that now gives him cause for concern? - answerkilled a man What made Oedipus go the the oracle when he was a young man? - answerHe wanted to get the answer to a question that was bothering him Before being married to Oedipus, to whom was Jocasta married? - answerLaius My friend, what is the answer to the riddle of the sphinx? - answerman At the end of Part 1, Oedipus wants to talk to someone to get the truth. Whom does he want to interview? - answerthe witness to