This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > Oedipus Rex > Oedipus Rex – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Oedipus Rex Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which word means to make a humble request? A) Supplication. B) Inquisition. C) Demand. D) Abhor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supplication. 2. An ancient Greek city dedicated to the Greek god Apollo and home to the oracle and priestess Pythia A) Sophocles. B) Sphinx. C) Oedipus. D) Delphi. E) Apollo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delphi. 3. What does the word INCONTINENTLY mean? A) A large quantity of something. B) Badly conceived, designed, or planned. C) A large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession. D) Without due or reasonable consideration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Without due or reasonable consideration. 4. Jocasta's brother who is said to be an accomplice of the old man and was threatened with death A) Tiresias. B) Careon. C) Apollo. D) Creon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Creon. 5. A person might visit the town of ..... to consult the oracle. A) Sophocles. B) Sphinx. C) Oedipus. D) Delphi. E) Thebes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delphi. 6. How can a body to into the afterlife? A) Proper Burials. B) Significant Rituals. C) Secret Traditions. D) A Holy Grail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proper Burials. 7. What does the word ENCHANTRESS mean? A) Woman who uses magic or sorcery to put something or someone under a spell. B) Physical or mental weakness. C) When something absorbs your attention or interest. D) To dispute or call into question. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Woman who uses magic or sorcery to put something or someone under a spell. 8. What is the shape of a theater? A) Horseshoe. B) Oval. C) Circle. D) Half Circle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horseshoe. 9. What does the word VAUNTED mean? A) A person that's suppose to be able to foresee the future. B) When something absorbs your interest or attention. C) To praise or boast about. D) Something that causes pain or suffering. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To praise or boast about. 10. Pain; Suffering A) Malice. B) Lamentation. C) Malediction. D) Affliction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Affliction. 11. Who is the group of people the informs the audience about happenings in the play and usually consisted of 15 people. A) The chorus. B) Thespis. C) Chorus leader. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chorus. 12. Define malediction A) One fallen from grace or dishonor. B) Wretched; very bad. C) A curse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A curse. 13. What does the word MISBEGOTTEN mean? A) A large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession. B) Badly conceived, designed, or planned. C) A mythological spirit of nature imagined as a beautiful maiden inhabiting rivers, woods, or other locations. D) Without due or reasonable consideration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Badly conceived, designed, or planned. 14. What does the word PROGNOSTICATIONS mean? A) To dispute or call into question. B) The action of foretelling or prophesying future events. C) Badly conceived, designed or planned. D) Without due or reasonable consideration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The action of foretelling or prophesying future events. 15. How does the concept of fate play a crucial role in determining the course of one's life, as exemplified by Oedipus's journey? A) The power of unwavering faith. B) The inevitability of fate. C) The danger of excessive pride. D) The strength of familial bonds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The inevitability of fate. 16. Tiresias' prophecy is an example of which literary element? A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Symbolism. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing. 17. What is going on in Thebes at the beginning of the play? A) A famine. B) A plague. C) A party. D) A sphinx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A plague. 18. Revealed that he was not the son of the monarchs of Corinth A) Slave. B) Messenger. C) Day. D) Waiter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Messenger. 19. A pile used to burn a body for funeral rites. A) Embers. B) Supplication. C) Hearth. D) Pyre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pyre. 20. When Oedipus says, "I will fight for him as if he were my father" it is an example of A) Imagery. B) Dramatic irony. C) Metaphor. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. ← 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books