This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > Oedipus Rex > Oedipus Rex – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oedipus Rex Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word INFIRMITY mean? A) A disease. B) A terrible sickeness. C) Physical or mental weakness. D) Badly conceived, designed or planned. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical or mental weakness. 2. These are synonyms for this word:qualm, scruple and remorse A) Defilement. B) Compunction. C) Supplication. D) Lamentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compunction. 3. What does the chorus represent? A) Society. B) The King. C) The Protagonist. D) The Side Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Society. 4. What does the word BANISHMENT mean? A) To exceed or surpass. B) A disease. C) A terrible sickness. D) Being sent away from a place or country as punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being sent away from a place or country as punishment. 5. Define enquiry A) Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. B) A search for knowledge. C) A petty misdeed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A search for knowledge. 6. What did actors wear masks? A) Exagerate Emotions. B) Exagerate Acting. C) Act as someone else. D) Act as a god. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exagerate Emotions. 7. Jocasta hanged herself with a rope A) Tama. B) Mali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mali. 8. The main action of the play; performed by actors. A) Prologue. B) Stopped. C) Episode/Scene. D) Ode. E) Exit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Episode/Scene. 9. The horrific events in this play would cause the audience to experience ..... A) Celebration. B) Tragic flaw. C) Oracle. D) Hubris. E) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Catharsis. 10. Greek god of god of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases; god who gives help and wards off evil; patron deity of Delphi A) Sophocles. B) Oedipus. C) Delphi. D) Theban. E) Phoebus Apollo. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Phoebus Apollo. 11. Oedipus' calling his own life "much-envied" (line 2) is an example of (a) A) Verbal irony. B) Situational irony. C) Dramatic irony. D) Cathartic incident. E) Pathetic fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic irony. 12. An emotional release felt by the spectator is called A) Hubris. B) Catharsis. C) Hamartia. D) Tragic Flaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catharsis. 13. Why do gory scenes take place off stage? A) The actors were all men and it wouldn't have made any sense. B) There were only three actors allowed on stage at one time. C) It was inappropriate in Greek culture to show such violence. D) None of these answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was inappropriate in Greek culture to show such violence. 14. At then end of the play, who says, "No more; here your power ends." A) Oedipus. B) Tiresias. C) Creon. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creon. 15. Greek theatre buildings comprised of orchestra, skene and theatron. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 16. What does the word IMPUGNED mean? A) Badly conceived, designed, or planned. B) Hatefully or shockingly evil. C) A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations. D) To dispute or call into question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To dispute or call into question. 17. What does Jocasta realize at the end of Scene 3? A) That she married an insane man. B) That she can't have any more children. C) That Oedipus is her son. D) That Laius's ghost has been haunting Thebes this whole time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That Oedipus is her son. 18. The image represents which vocabulary word from the Prologue of Oedipus Rex? A) Battens. B) Liberator. C) Chaplet. D) Boughs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chaplet. 19. Which statement is NOT TRUE about Sophocles. A) He broke the tradition of trilogies. B) He added a third character in the play. C) He expanded the chorus to fifteen people and increased its importance in the play. D) He added scenery to his plays. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He expanded the chorus to fifteen people and increased its importance in the play. 20. Define brazen A) Deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. B) A petty misdeed. C) Shameless and bold. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shameless and bold. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGreek Classics QuizzesOedipus Rex Quiz 1Oedipus Rex Quiz 2Oedipus Rex Quiz 3Oedipus Rex Quiz 4Oedipus Rex Quiz 5Oedipus Rex Quiz 6Oedipus Rex Quiz 7Oedipus Rex Quiz 8Oedipus Rex Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books