This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > Oedipus Rex > Oedipus Rex – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oedipus Rex Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word FRAUDULENT mean? A) Hateful or shockingly evil. B) Obtained, done by or involving criminal deception. C) Badly conceived planned or designed. D) A false defamatory statement to ruin someone's reputation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obtained, done by or involving criminal deception. 2. The ..... appealed to Oedipus for help ending the plague; their voices were represented in the Chorus. A) Oracles. B) Thespians. C) Thebans. D) Gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thebans. 3. What was terrorizing the town of Thebes when Oedipus arrived? A) The gods. B) The Titans. C) The Sphinx. D) King Width. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sphinx. 4. The effect a tragedy has on an audience; the purification and purging of emotions, particularly pity and fear, which result from the audience experiencing the art form A) Greek tragedy. B) Tragic flaw. C) Hubris. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Catharsis. 5. Define sire A) To bring into being. B) A hostile encounter; a brutal attack. C) Evil or malignant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To bring into being. 6. Sophocles increased ..... and ..... of his plays. A) Speaking actors and chorus members. B) The choral recitations and the scenes. C) The actors and the trilogies. D) The actors and the scenes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaking actors and chorus members. 7. The following are synonyms for this word:banish, extrude and oust. A) Pilgrimage. B) Expel. C) Faction. D) Boughs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expel. 8. What does the word RIVETED mean? A) A large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession. B) Without due or reasonable consideration. C) Hatefully or shockingly evil. D) When something absorbs your interest or attention. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When something absorbs your interest or attention. 9. Why was Oedipus offered the kingship in Thebes? A) Because he was successful in saving the city from the Sphinx. B) Because he killed King Laius. C) Because Tiresias dictated Jocasta to make Oedipus the new king. D) Because he killed Creon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he was successful in saving the city from the Sphinx. 10. Ruled by King Lauis and struck by the plague A) Thebes. B) Corinth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thebes. 11. What crime has Oedipus committed in Oedipus Rex? A) He has tried to kill Creon. B) He has murdered his father. C) He has betrayed his country. D) He has disowned his children. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has murdered his father. 12. Oedipus' anger at Tiresias' words illustrates his A) Hamartia. B) Hubris. C) Hybris. D) Adventure. E) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamartia. 13. Which does NOT refer to a trait belonging to a tragic character which leads to his downfall? A) Virtues. B) Tragic flaw. C) Hamartia. D) Achilles' whole. E) Hubris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virtues. 14. Who is killed at the "meeting of three roads" ? A) King Width. B) Jocasta. C) Oedipus. D) Polybus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Width. 15. Western theatre originated at an ancient Greek festival called Dionysia. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 16. Who is Creon? A) Jocasta's brother-in-law. B) Oedipus' father. C) Antigone's uncle. D) The son of Polybus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antigone's uncle. 17. The person considered the greatest playwright of all time is ..... A) Shakespeare. B) Aristotle. C) Eurydice. D) Sophocles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sophocles. 18. What does the word HEINOUS mean? A) To dispute or call into question. B) Badly conceived, designed, or planned. C) A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. D) Hatefully or shockingly evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hatefully or shockingly evil. 19. What was Greek Theater an outgrowth of? A) Festivals Honoring The God Dionysus. B) Parties Honoring The God Dionysus. C) Music Honoring The God Dionysus. D) Humans Honoring The God Dionysus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Festivals Honoring The God Dionysus. 20. Arrogance; a quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence A) Greek tragedy. B) Tragic flaw. C) Oracle. D) Hubris. E) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hubris. Next →Related QuizzesGreek Classics QuizzesOedipus Rex Quiz 2Oedipus Rex Quiz 3Oedipus Rex Quiz 4Oedipus Rex Quiz 5Oedipus Rex Quiz 6Oedipus Rex Quiz 7Oedipus Rex Quiz 8Oedipus Rex Quiz 9Oedipus Rex Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books