OEDIPUS REX TEST REVIEW QUESTIONS
What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play? - Answers :asking the Gods for
help
Why is the priest asking the Gods for help? - Answers :there is a plague on the city
Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play? - Answers :Pythian oracle
What does Creon report after coming back from the Pythian oracle? - Answers :Laius's
killer must be found
What should happen to the man they will find? - Answers :he must be banished or killed
What does Teiresias say will happen to Oedipus? - Answers :he will leave Thebes a
blind beggar
What does Oedipus ask Creon? - Answers :why Teiresias didn't say anything at the
time of Laius's death
Does Creon say he wants to be king? - Answers :no
Why doesn't Creon want to be a king? - Answers :it's too much responsibility and he
doesn't want to be king of a dead city
What does Jocasta convince Oedipus to do to Creon? - Answers :forgive him
What does Jocasta attempt to prove to Oedipus? - Answers :there is no truth in
prophesy
What does Jocasta say she did with her baby? - Answers :she left the baby exposed on
a mountain
Where was Laius killed? - Answers :at the crossroads
Why does Jocasta's story upset Oedipus? - Answers :Oedipus finds out he killed a man
at the crossroads
What made Oedipus go to the oracle when he was young? - Answers :a man called him
a bastard
What did the oracle tell Oedipus? - Answers :that Oedipus will kill his father and marry
his mother
Why did Oedipus leave Corinth? - Answers :Oedipus was afraid of what the oracle said
What is the priest doing at the beginning of the play? - Answers :asking the Gods for
help
Why is the priest asking the Gods for help? - Answers :there is a plague on the city
Where did Oedipus send Creon at the beginning of the play? - Answers :Pythian oracle
What does Creon report after coming back from the Pythian oracle? - Answers :Laius's
killer must be found
What should happen to the man they will find? - Answers :he must be banished or killed
What does Teiresias say will happen to Oedipus? - Answers :he will leave Thebes a
blind beggar
What does Oedipus ask Creon? - Answers :why Teiresias didn't say anything at the
time of Laius's death
Does Creon say he wants to be king? - Answers :no
Why doesn't Creon want to be a king? - Answers :it's too much responsibility and he
doesn't want to be king of a dead city
What does Jocasta convince Oedipus to do to Creon? - Answers :forgive him
What does Jocasta attempt to prove to Oedipus? - Answers :there is no truth in
prophesy
What does Jocasta say she did with her baby? - Answers :she left the baby exposed on
a mountain
Where was Laius killed? - Answers :at the crossroads
Why does Jocasta's story upset Oedipus? - Answers :Oedipus finds out he killed a man
at the crossroads
What made Oedipus go to the oracle when he was young? - Answers :a man called him
a bastard
What did the oracle tell Oedipus? - Answers :that Oedipus will kill his father and marry
his mother
Why did Oedipus leave Corinth? - Answers :Oedipus was afraid of what the oracle said
