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    The document contains 18 multiple choice questions about the plot of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. It asks about key details like the situation in Thebes at the beginning, Creon bringing news to Oedipus of the death of the former king Laius, Oedipus deciding to investigate the death, and ultimately Oedipus realizing he unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

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    The document contains 18 multiple choice questions about the plot of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. It asks about key details like the situation in Thebes at the beginning, Creon bringing news to Oedipus of the death of the former king Laius, Oedipus deciding to investigate the death, and ultimately Oedipus realizing he unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

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    The document contains 18 multiple choice questions about the plot of the tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. It asks about key details like the situation in Thebes at the beginning, Creon bringing news to Oedipus of the death of the former king Laius, Oedipus deciding to investigate the death, and ultimately Oedipus realizing he unwittingly fulfilled a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

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    1. What is the situation in Thebes at the beginning of the play?

    2. What news does Creon bring to Oedipus?


    3. According to Creon, what happened to the former king, Laius?
    4. What does Oedipus decide to do about the former king’s death?
    5. Who is Teiresias? Why does Oedipus send for him?
    6. What are the rumors about Laius’s death?
    7. Why is Creon upset with Oedipus?
    8. Why doesn’t Creon want to be king?
    9. What does Oedipus accuse Creon of? What is Creon’s punishment
    for this crime?
    10. According to the Oracle, how was Laius supposed to die, and how
    was this prevented?
    11. What does Oedipus realize after Queen Jocasta, his wife, tells him w
    here King Laius was killed?
    12. What one word will save Oedipus from being guilty of killing King
    Laius? Why?
    13 Why is Queen Jocasta happy to hear the news about King Polybus ?
    14 .How did King Polybus die? How was he supposed to die?
    15. Why would one of King Laius’s servants have a baby tied up at its
    ankles?
    16. Why is Queen Jocasta upset about the messenger’s story? Why
    doesn’t she want Oedipus to send for the other servant?
    17 .Why does Oedipus realize that he has been “sinful in my begetting,
    sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!”
    18. Why does Oedipus punish himself instead of killing himself?

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