This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > Oedipus Rex > Oedipus Rex – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oedipus Rex Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define marauder A) Someone who attacks in search of goods or money. B) A petty misdeed. C) Shameless and bold. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who attacks in search of goods or money. 2. In the final lines of Oedipus Rex, the Chorus says: "Count no mortal happy till / he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain." What tragic idea is expressed in these lines? A) One must try to live happily and to avoid pain. B) Even good people cannot expect a happy afterlife. C) Every life, no matter its ups and downs, ends in misery. D) Even those who seem very fortunate may come to experience pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Even those who seem very fortunate may come to experience pain. 3. This image represents which vocabulary word from the Prologue of Oedipus Rex? A) Inattentive. B) Augury. C) Affliction. D) Compunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inattentive. 4. Oedipus's father's smile A) Herring Lauis. B) Haring Polybus. C) King Apollo. D) Haring Creon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haring Polybus. 5. Who's story do Theban Plays focus on? A) Oedipus and his daughters. B) Odysseus and his crew. C) Love and death. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oedipus and his daughters. 6. In Oedipus Rex, what does Oedipus fear will happen to his daughters? A) They will follow him into exile. B) They will try to kill him for his misdeeds. C) They will be shunned because of their father's deeds. D) They will be killed for what their father has done. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They will be shunned because of their father's deeds. 7. What does the concept of 'fate' primarily represent in real-life decisions? A) The folly of human ambition. B) The wisdom of the gods. C) The inevitability of fate. D) The blindness of man to the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The inevitability of fate. 8. Spoken by one or two characters before the chorus appears. The prologue usually gives the background information needed to understand the events of the play. A) Prologue. B) Stopped. C) Episode/Scene. D) Ode. E) Exit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prologue. 9. Define abomination A) To evade or avoid. B) Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values. C) The quality of deserving abhorrence or disgust. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The quality of deserving abhorrence or disgust. 10. Scene 3 acts as what part of the plot? A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Climax. 11. How did Jocasta die? A) She stabbed herself with her brooch. B) She hanged herself. C) She drowned. D) She was devoured by the Sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She hanged herself. 12. What does the word PROCLAMATION mean? A) Obtained, done by or involving criminal deception. B) To dispute or call into question. C) The act of declaring or announcing something publicly. D) To praise or boast about. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The act of declaring or announcing something publicly. 13. How many children does Oedipus have? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 14. Scene 4 acts as what part of the plot? A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling action. 15. What caused the citizens of Thebes to ask Oedipus for help? A) It was election time. B) The city was suffering under a plague affecting pregnancies and the harvests. C) The Sphinx told them to. D) An oracle spoke to Jocasta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The city was suffering under a plague affecting pregnancies and the harvests. 16. Who is the author of Oedipus Rex? A) Socrates. B) Shakespeare. C) Mrs. Whitehair. D) Sophocles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sophocles. 17. The Chorus was an integral part of the early Greek plays. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 18. Which of the following is the correct order of a Greek Tragedy plot line? A) Parados, Prologue, Ode, Episode, Exodus. B) Prologue, Parados, Episode, Ode, Exodus. C) Ode, Prologue, Parados, Episode, Exodus. D) Prologue, Episode, Ode, Parados, Exodus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prologue, Parados, Episode, Ode, Exodus. 19. How does Jocasta die? A) She stabs herself. B) She hangs herself. C) She drowns herself. D) She swallows hot coals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She hangs herself. 20. At his first entrance, Tiresias essentially admits that he knows A) The answers to all of Oedipus' questions. B) Who killed Lauis. C) Oedipus is a tyrant. D) The cause of the city's plague. E) The answer to the Sphinx's riddle. 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