Question 1

How do Laius and Jocasta try to avoid their prophecy?

Accepted Answer

Gave away the baby to be killed

Answer

Kept the baby

Answer

Hung the baby

Answer

Gave the baby to a goddess

Question 2

Which city was oedipus born in?

Accepted Answer

Thebes

Answer

Corinth

Answer

Delphi

Answer

Athens

Question 3

What fraction of the kingdom does Oedipus, Creon, and Jocasta each own?

Accepted Answer

1/3

Answer

Jocasta owns all!! #GRLPWR

Answer

None

Answer

Creon owns all

Question 4

Who was the first to accuse Oedipus as the murderer?

Accepted Answer

Tiresias

Answer

Jocasta

Answer

The shepherd

Answer

Creon

Question 5

How did Laius die?

Accepted Answer

Murdered by his son

Answer

Hades

Answer

Killed at war

Answer

The sphinx

Question 6

What curse did Oedipus put upon Laius' murderer?

Accepted Answer

Be exiled and executed

Answer

Bad luck

Answer

Infertility

Answer

Blindness

Question 7

What was the answer to the sphinxes riddle?

Accepted Answer

Man and woman

Answer

Child

Answer

Elder

Answer

Man

Question 8

Did Jocasta know that Oedipus was her son when she married him?

Accepted Answer

NOOOO

Answer

MAYBEEEE

Answer

. . .

Answer

YASSSSS QUEEN

Question 9

What did Tiresias say was going to happen to Oedipus after he found out the truth?

Accepted Answer

He was going to go blind

Answer

He was going to loose his other "father"

Answer

He was going to be exiled

Answer

He was going to die

Question 10

Who was the ruler of Thebes at the end of the book?

Accepted Answer

Creon

Answer

Oedipus

Answer

Laius

Answer

Polybus

Question 11

Who spilled the tea about Oedipus being given to another family?

Accepted Answer

Messenger

Answer

Merope

Answer

Polybus

Answer

Old Man

Question 12

Why was it so important for Creon to keep Oedipus's daughters?

Accepted Answer

They were a sign of disgrace and incest

Answer

He wanted to marry them

Answer

He was putting them up for adoption

Answer

He was going to have them executed

Question 13

What does Oedipus do when he finds Jocasta dead?

Accepted Answer

Gouges his eyes out

Answer

Hangs himself

Answer

Jumps out the window

Answer

Pulls out his hair

Question 14

Where is the oracle everyone goes to for prophecies or help?

Accepted Answer

Delphi

Answer

Corinth

Answer

Cithaeron

Answer

Thebes

Question 15

Who told the shepherd to come back to Thebes?

Accepted Answer

Oedipus

Answer

Jocasta

Answer

Laius

Answer

Creon

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