Ancient Greek Plays Oedipus

Who is the author of Oedipus Rex?

• Socrates

• Shakespeare

• Mrs. Whitehair

• Sophocles

Who is killed at the “meeting of three roads”?

• King Laius

• Jocasta

• Oedipus

• Polybus

What is going on in Thebes at the beginning of the play?

• a famine

• a plague

• a party

• a sphinx

When Oedipus says, “I will fight for him as if he were my father” it is an example of

• imagery

• dramatic irony

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

Tiresias’ prophecy is an example of which literary element?

• irony

• metaphor

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

Who is the speaker of the following quote, “Not if you see things calmly, rationally, as I do.”

• Creon

• Oedipus

• Tiresias

• Jocasta

Who says, “So much for prophecy. It’s neither here nor there. From this day on, I wouldn’t look right or left.”

• Creon

• Jocasta

• Tiresias

• Oedipus

Scene 3 acts as what part of the plot?

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Falling action

• Climax

Who says, “Stop -- in the name of god, if you love your own life, call off this search! My suffering is enough!”

• Jocasta

• Creon

• Oedipus

• Tiresias

Scene 4 acts as what part of the plot?

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action