This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > Oedipus Rex > Oedipus Rex – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oedipus Rex Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The concluding section of the play. Sung by the chorus as it makes its final exit, which usually offers words of wisdom related to the actions and outcome of the play.The moral of the play is revealed! A) Prologue. B) Stopped. C) Episode/Scene. D) Ode. E) Exit. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exit. 2. How does the theme of fate versus free will play out in an individual's decision to change careers to avoid a predicted professional downfall? A) The individual chooses to change careers to avoid the predicted professional downfall. B) The individual ends up in a new career that unknowingly leads them to the predicted professional downfall. C) Both A and B. D) Neither A nor B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both A and B. 3. Women were allowed to act in ancient Greek theatre. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 4. What does the word CATARACT mean? A) A large waterfall. B) A humble request. C) A disease. D) A terrible sickness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large waterfall. 5. To Perceive By Intuition Or Insight A) Auguries. B) Divining. C) Impious. D) Execrable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divining. 6. When Tiresias calls Oedipus a "tyrant" (line 33) he means that Oedipus A) Did not inherit the throne. B) Married a reigning queen. C) Took the throne by force. D) Is an unlawful king. E) Is wicked and cruel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Did not inherit the throne. 7. What does the word AFFLICTIONS mean? A) To praise or boast about. B) A disease. C) Physical or mental weakness. D) Something that causes pain or suffering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Something that causes pain or suffering. 8. The judge will adjure the witnesses to speak only the truth while testifying in favor of the defendant. A) Request. B) Question. C) Create. D) Follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Request. 9. In Greek Theater what makes the protagonist unique? A) Interacting with the chorus. B) They are the main character. C) Their passion. D) Their story is the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interacting with the chorus. 10. Some see the graffiti as the defilement of property while others look at the airbrushed words as an expression of art. A) Purified. B) Polluted. C) Packaged. D) Pointed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polluted. 11. What does the word DIVINATION mean? A) To exceed or surpass. B) A terrible sickeness. C) Seeking knowledge of the future by supernatural means. D) A large quantity of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seeking knowledge of the future by supernatural means. 12. Define foreboding A) To evade or avoid. B) A sense of impending evil or misfortune. C) Unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sense of impending evil or misfortune. 13. Why was Oedipus initially saved by the shepherd as a baby? A) Polybus and Merope wanted a child. B) Oedipus was a bad kid so they wanted to raise him better. C) The shepherd hated the Thebans. D) The shepherd found him abandoned with his ankles tied up. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The shepherd found him abandoned with his ankles tied up. 14. What does the word CALAMITY mean? A) A disaster. B) A passionate expression of grief or sorrow. C) The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. D) A large quantity of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A disaster. 15. Define affront A) To cause distress; to inflict great torment on. B) A hostile encounter; a brutal attack. C) A curse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A hostile encounter; a brutal attack. 16. What is the significance of a person choosing to isolate themselves from society after realizing the impact of their actions? A) It symbolizes their newfound insight into their own identity and actions. B) It represents their self-imposed punishment for not adhering to moral values. C) It is an act of defiance against the societal norms that they believe have wronged them. D) It signifies their desire to avoid facing the consequences of their actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It symbolizes their newfound insight into their own identity and actions. 17. What is the name of the play we are reading? A) Oedipus Rex. B) Oedipus at Colonus. C) Antigone. D) The Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oedipus Rex. 18. Cithaeron is the name of A) Oedipus' true father. B) The Oracle at Delphi. C) The mountain where Oedipus was left to die. D) The crossroads where Oedipus killed Laius. E) Oedipus' true mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mountain where Oedipus was left to die. 19. What is the meaning of the word reverence in these lines from Oedipus Rex? ..... But if you still are without shame before the face of men reverence at least the flame that gives all life, our Lord the Sun, and do not show unveiled to him pollution such that neither land nor holy rain nor light of day can welcome. A) Help. B) Extinguish. C) Show great respect. D) Take vengeance upon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Show great respect. 20. By nature, Sheila is a taciturn woman who keeps her thoughts to herself. A) Occupied. B) Respected. C) Reserved. D) Exhorted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reserved. ← 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 8Oedipus Rex Quiz 9Oedipus Rex Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books