Oedipus Rex Exam With Collect Answers

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, Laios, died, a sphinx took control and made a deal that if anyone solved her riddle, they would take over Thebes and she would kill herself. (page 9) "The riddling Sphinx's song/ Made us deaf to all mysteries but her own."-Creon "What goes on four in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three at night?" The answer was a man. Oedipus comes along and solves the riddle, causing himself to become King of Thebes and the Sphinx to kill herself. Oedipus marries Iocaste. Where did Oedipus send Creon? What does he find out? What God tells him this? - collect answer-He sent Creon to Apollo's temple in Delphi. (page 6) "I have sent Creon,/ Son of Menoikeus, brother of the Queen, To Delphi, Apollo's place of revelation,/To learn there, if he can,/ What act or pledge of mine may save the city." Creon learns that they must rid Thebes of whoever killed Laios, and that the killer resides in Thebes. Once they do this Thebes will come back to its greatness. (page 7) "By exile or by death, blood for blood. It was/ Murder that brought the plague-wind on the city."-Creon Apollo tells Creon this new information.