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Oedipus Final Test Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
After Oedipus attacks Jacosta for trying to keep him quiet, how does she react?
✓ She runs from the room and hangs herself (commits suicide)
Besides himself, with whom is Oedipus angry with and blame for his circumstances?
✓ the gods
"O make us clean!" Jocasta states. The audience is aware that she can never be clean,
for she married her son and also sent him off to his death when he was just a baby.
Which literary device is this?
✓ dramatic irony
Oedipus states about Laius, "I know--but not of my own knowledge, for I never saw
him." Of what is this an example?
✓ dramatic irony
For whom does Oedipus ask after he blinds himself?
✓ his two daughters, Ismene and Antigone.
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For whom does Oedipus send after he learns of the messenger's story?
✓ Herdsman 1/Messenger 1 (From Thebes)
How do Oedipus's feet get scarred?
✓ His feet are bound in a spancel (usually used on animals) when he is only a baby
of three days old
How does Jacosta (at first) react when she realizes who Oedipus is?
✓ She tries to get him to be quiet and let it go because she knows the truth will
destroy them both
How does Oedipus first get an inkling that he is not the son of Merope and Polybus?
✓ a drunk man at a banquet tells him that he is not
How does Oedipus react to Jacosta wanting him to not pursue the truth?
✓ He thinks she is ashamed of his "lowly" birth because he has yet to realize that
he is the baby she gave away. He thinks he was born to one not royal.
How does Oedipus save the city of Thebes, become king, and come to marry Jacosta?
✓ He solves the riddle of the evil Sphinx terrorizing the town.
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Oedipus Final Test Questions and
Correct Verified Answers
After Oedipus attacks Jacosta for trying to keep him quiet, how does she react?
✓ She runs from the room and hangs herself (commits suicide)
Besides himself, with whom is Oedipus angry with and blame for his circumstances?
✓ the gods
"O make us clean!" Jocasta states. The audience is aware that she can never be clean,
for she married her son and also sent him off to his death when he was just a baby.
Which literary device is this?
✓ dramatic irony
Oedipus states about Laius, "I know--but not of my own knowledge, for I never saw
him." Of what is this an example?
✓ dramatic irony
For whom does Oedipus ask after he blinds himself?
✓ his two daughters, Ismene and Antigone.
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, Top Mark Questions and Correct Verified Answers
For whom does Oedipus send after he learns of the messenger's story?
✓ Herdsman 1/Messenger 1 (From Thebes)
How do Oedipus's feet get scarred?
✓ His feet are bound in a spancel (usually used on animals) when he is only a baby
of three days old
How does Jacosta (at first) react when she realizes who Oedipus is?
✓ She tries to get him to be quiet and let it go because she knows the truth will
destroy them both
How does Oedipus first get an inkling that he is not the son of Merope and Polybus?
✓ a drunk man at a banquet tells him that he is not
How does Oedipus react to Jacosta wanting him to not pursue the truth?
✓ He thinks she is ashamed of his "lowly" birth because he has yet to realize that
he is the baby she gave away. He thinks he was born to one not royal.
How does Oedipus save the city of Thebes, become king, and come to marry Jacosta?
✓ He solves the riddle of the evil Sphinx terrorizing the town.
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