20 Py 35 40 Oedipus Re _AOVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT Oedipus Rex Practice Multiple-Choice Questions PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 1 — 5 Carefully read the passage below before answering the multiple-choice questions that follow. OEDIPUS, TIRESIAS OEDIPUS: TIRESIAS: OEDIPUS: TIRESIAS: OEDIPUS: TIRESIAS: OEDIPUS: © Tiresias, who geasp all things, ‘oth what can be learned and what is unspeakable, Doth of heaven and treading the earth, even if you cannot see, you still understand svhat sickness plagues eur city, andl we find, lord, you alone ate our savior and defender For Phocbns, if you have not heard this also from the messengers, in response to our question said relief from this sickness would only come i we should discover and punish well the manderets of Lalus or senel thems forth as fugitives from this land, Therefore grudging nothing from the speech of binds for something known Irom another sort ‘of divination, save yoursell and) the city, and save me, and ward off all the pollution from the dead man. We are in your hands, andl to belp a man {rom troubles when you have the power is the sweetest of labors. Alas, alas! How terrible to know when it does not help the kntower; for knowing this well [et it slip should not have come here. Whats this? How dispiritedly you have comet Send me home, for you will bear your lot easily and | mine, ifyou will yield to me. You speak neither cleatly nor helpfully to this elty, which raised you, if you guard your thoughts. For I sce that your words come at the wrong time, and since 1 would not suffer the same thing, No, by the gods, don't hold hack what you know, when all of us as suppliants bow down before you None of you understand, but I shall never reveal my own troubles, and so I shall not say yours. What are you saying? You will not explain what you understand, but rather intend to betray us and destroy the city 16 PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS.Osdus Rex 43 TIRESIAS: I eause no patn for you or myself. Why do you vainly seek this? For you can learn nothing from me, OEDIPUS: You worst of wicked men! You would anger stone! Will you reveal nothing, but instead 50 show yourself unmovable and impractical? TIRESIAS: You have found fault with my anger, hut your own, living within you, you did not see, but blamed me. 55 GEDIPUS: Who could hear such words and not grow angry, words with whieh you dishonor the city? TIRESIAS: 1 willend the same, though Ide it in silence o OEDIPUS: Why nos, then, ell me what wail come anyway? TIRESIAS: should explain no futher, At these things, if you wisl rage as much as your heart is able. 65 OEDIPUS: Indeed, since | am so angry, fl pass ever none cof what I understand, Know that | thinle you, too, had your hand in this deed and did it even though you did! not kill with your own hands. Bur if' you could see, | would think the deed yours we alone TIRESIAS: Really? L say to you: abide by that decree you made earlier, and from this day address tneither these men here nor me, since you B are the unholy polluter of this land OEDIPUS: Did you throw ont this word so boldly? And where dla you think you will escape it? 80 TIRESIAS: Ihave escaped it, for I hold the potent trath, OEDIPUS: Who told you to say this? It is no prophecy? TIRESIAS: You did! For you forced me to speak unwillingly! 1. What is ironic about Oedipus’ appeal to Tiresias? Oedipus does not really want to know the truth Tiresias already knows the truth. Oedipus believes knowing the truth will help him, Tiresias’ answer will anger Oedipus. Oedipus threatens to punish Lauis' murderers. FoORE 7 ao wc VESTNedipus Rex ABVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT 2. At his first entrance, Tiresias essentially admits that he knows the answers to alll of Oedipus’ questions. who killed Lauis, Oedipus is a tyrant, the cause of the city’s plague. E. the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle, pore 3. Dramatically, Tiresias’ riddles serve to anger Oedipus. build suspense. provide exposition introduce the conflict suiggest the theme. mone > 4. Responding to Oedipus’ anger Tiresias hints at Oedipus’ ‘A. hamartia B, hubris C. hybris D. tragic flaw. E, emotional catharsis. Oedipus’ anger at 1 A, hamartia. B. hubris, C. hybris. D. E resias' words illustrates his peripeteia. catharsis, 18 PRACTICE MULTPLE-GHE QUESTIONS10 20 25 35 otis Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 6 ~ 10 Carefully read the passage below before choosing the best answer to the multiple-choice questions that follow: OEDIPUS: chorus TIRESIAS: © wealth and power and skill reaching Jeyond skill in a much-envied ile howe much resentnent gathers up inside yo sf for the sake of this realm, which the ety pat into my hands asa gilt, not something sought, the trusted Creon, my fiend from the begining, Doguiles me and secretly desires to oust me engaging this craltly working wizaed this tricky beggar, who sees clearly only for profit, but is blind when it eomes to skill So tell me, when are you the wise seer? How is it that, when the singing hound was here, ‘you never said iow the citizens might be freed? Even though the riddle could net be solved by the first man who met it, but required prophecy: But you did not come forth with this, knowing some clue from birds or gods; instead | eame along, the idiot Oedipus! 1 stopped her working from intellect, not lear ‘The very man youre (0 overthrow, thinking to stand beside Creams throne. 1 think you both—you and the one who framed these things— will regret your urge to cleanse the land, but if you were not 50 old, youd learn now what such words earn. ing from birds, ‘To us it seems that both this man’s words and your own, Oedipus, were said in anger. But we must not dwell on such things. Only this how best we may fulfill the gods instructions Even though you are a tyrant, L must at least be granted an equal reply for I, t00, have the right to speech. For Lam no slave to you, aval, but to Loxias, sot will not be written off as Creon’s elient. 1 will reply, since you reproach me as bln: You, even though you sve clearly, do not see the scope of your evil, nor where yout live, nor with whom you dwell, Do you know your true descent? And secretly you are an enemy to your own kin, both under the earth and on it, Saiking you from both sides the terrible hounds of your mother’s tnd father curse will drive you from this land, thonigh you see well enongh now, then you will be blind What place will not be harbor to your shouting? What Cithaeron will not echo back your eves, 19) ‘PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS.50 0 6 vis Rex 10, when you truly understand that wedding? You sailed home into it, no proper harbor after such good sailing before! Nor do you perceive the multitude of other evils, which will make you the equal af your children. Go alvendl—-insult Creon and this mouth of mine, for ofall mortals who will be destroyed soot and branch, there is not one sadder than you. OEDIPUS: Am to tolerate hearing this from ths man? No, o hell with himt No! Tarn around quickly and head back hore, far away from here. TIRESIAS: I would not have come here, if you hd not called me, ADVANCED PLAENENT TEACHING UtiT Oedipus’ calling his own life “much-envied” (line 2) is an example of (a) verbal irony. situational irony. dramatic cathartic pathetic fallacy mone> When Tiresias calls Oedipus a “tyrant” (line 33) he means that Oedipus A, did not inherit the throne. B. married a reigning queen. took the throne by force. is an unlawful king is wicked and cruel. Foo sias’ calling Oedipus blind is both, metaphoric and prophetic. ral and figurative. insulting and insolent. comic and suspenseful. E, impolitic and treasonous. Ti A B, Cc D. Cithaeron is the name of Oedipus’ true father. the Oracle at Delphi the mountain where Oedipus was left to die the crossroads where Oedipus killed Laius. Oedipus’ true mother. moose Tiresias’ parting line emphasizes the irony of Oedipus’ A, familial curse. B. need for information. C. metaphoric blindness. D, rudeness and insolence. E, proneness to anger. 20 ‘PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS10 20 25 30 35 40 6 odious Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UN Practice Multiple-Choice Questions 11 ~ 15 Carefully read the passage below from Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and then answer the multiple-choice questions that follow: (tater JOCASTA from the pace} JOCASTA, Why: unhappy men, de you stir up this lunweleome revolution of the tongue? Arent you ashamed to stir private evils when the land is so sick? Come inside, ancl you, Crean, return home; don’t make this foolish grief ince something big, CREON: Sister, this husband of yours, Oedipus, judges rible things for me, choosing two evils: to forsake my fatherland or to die OEDIPUS: concede this, fur, my basely conspiring against n lady, J eaught him with evil craft CREON May Live no more, but di accussed, if have done Against you any of what you acense me. JOCASTA: By the gods, Ocdipus, believe this, respecting this eath to the gods most ofall, then me and these who are here with you. Sts Horus; Yield to these wishes and thoughts, sy lord, 1 pray. OEDIPUS: What would you have me yield? ‘HORUS: Respect a man who never before was foolish and now is powerlul from his oath, OEDIPUS: Do you know what you seek? HORUS to. OEDIPUS: Then tell me why. CHORUS: Never should you cast out a fiend, who is bound with an oath, dishonored, with only the charge of obscure words. QEDIPUS: Know well that when you seek this, you seek either amy destruction ot exile from this land. HORUS No, by the foremost of all the gods, the Sun! May I perish godless and friendless, the worst fate, FT have this in mind! a PRAGTICE MULTIPLE-CHOIGE QUESTIONS6 6 80 85 90 95 10s Dedius Rex OEDIPUS: CRON OEDIPUS, CREON: ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEAGHING UNIT But for me, the dying land eats away a my illstarved heart, f this ight between you two ‘will join itself to our old problems Then let him go, sinee F must either die or be dsiven by force from this land, dishonored For I pty your speech, since if pileous, not his, He will be hated wherever he goes. You are clearly hateful in yielding, and severe when you pass from anger. But personalities like yours are justly painfll to themselves ‘Wall you not Tet me be and go away? Vigo, finding you ignorant, but just in their eyes {xt CREON offtage An HORUS: JOCASTA chorus: JOCASTA’ chorus JOCASTA: Horus: OEDIPUS: chorus: JOCASTA: OEDIPUS: Lady, why do you hesit to take this man inside the honse? T seo learn what has befallen. Suspicion through unknown words. ‘came, and even an mnjust word can bite From both of tlhe? Yes, Boot, what was the cause? thas done enough to me, enough when the land already suffers so, that it should stay departed. Do you see where you've gotten, despite your good. intentions, trying to ease and blunt my anger? My lord, Pve sad it not only onee, tnt now that as mad, helpless In ratio 411 forsake you, ‘who, when my dear country’ was lst fv troubles, set her upright again. Bu now, hecome ence more or guile to etter things! 1 though, By the gods, tell me also, my lord, what problem puts you in so much anger! Since | respect you, my wife, more than them, t shall _speak of Crean ancl what he plots against me ‘PRACTICE MUCTIPLE-GHOICE QUESTIONS.no ns 120 130 140 Cedi Ree ADVANCED PLAGEMENT TEACHING UNIT ul 12, JOCASTA: Speak if you will explain the quatrel clearly OEDIPUS; He sad 1 was the murderer of Lains JOCASTA: Knowing this for himself, or learaing rom hearsay? OEDIPUS: He sent that criminal seer, since regarding Iuis ovum affair, he Keeps his tongue unstained JOCASTA: You nov, free yourself from these matters listen to me and learn why nothing mortal ‘ean show you anything of prophecy. I shall ella quick tale to prove my words A prophecy came to Laius once—1 won't say from Apollo himself, but from his servanis— that death would come to hin from his child, whoever was born to him from me. But then, Just as the repor is, some foreign brigands Slew him where the three wagon-roads meet. Yer three days had not passed from the birth of ray child, when that man, binding his ankles together sent him in anothers hands into the wild fl the mountain, And so Apollo brought about neither that he slay his father nor that Laius suffer the terrable thing he feared from his child Such things the speeches of seers predict, you should ignore; for whatever the god requires, he hinaself will easily reveal. OEDIPUS: Hearing you just now, my lady, how _my soul wanelers, how my mind shalees met JOCASTA: What care compels you to say such a thing? OEDIPUS: I thought | heard you say this: that Laius ‘was cut down where the three wagon-toads meet All of the following are possible themes of this scene EXCEPT A. Honor those who honor the gods. B, Public matters take precedence over private ones. C. Traitors must be dealt with swilily D. E Accusations must be based on more than suspicion, ‘One must listen and reason to learn the truth. Im the conflict between Oedipus and Creon, the Chorus and Jocasta both represent A. morality and justice. B, justice and piety. C. piety and mercy. D. justice and mercy. morality and mercy. 23 PRACTICE NULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSOedipus Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT 1B. 14, 15, Oedipus, in claiming that either he or Creon must be banished, reinforces Creon’s role of . protagonist, antagonist. villain. hero. foil. Jocasta’s attempt to reassure her husband is ironic because ‘A. she makes Oedipus begin to suspect the truth of his curse. B. she says that Laius’ prophesy did not come directly from Apollo. C. Laius’ son was taken to die in the mountains. D. she claims to put no faith in prophesies, E. Oedipus has already determined Creon’s guilt Joc: tas disregard for prophesy is an example of A. hamartia B. hubris C. catharsis D. insolence blindness Me FrATICE LTA ORE ESTO8 20 2B 35 45 Dedious Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT PRACTICE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 16 - 20 Carefully read the following passage and then select the best answers to the multiple-choice ‘questions below: OEDIPUS: Nor will you be deprived, when | am gone so far into expectations. For how could I speak to one ‘ore important than you as L meet such fortune? My father is Polybus of Corinth, any mother Merope of the line of Dorus | was thonght the greatest of the citizens there before chance befell me, worthy of marvel, ‘bat not worthy, at least, of my energy ‘Ata banquet a man overwhelmed by dink called mye a fraud in whom claimed for my father That day 1 tried to hole in may anger, Dut the next day 1 went home andl asked any mother and father, and they angrily treated the insult as the speceh of a drunkard, Lrejoieed with them both at this, but still it chafed me always, forthe rumor spread! fx Unknosen to my mother and father } set out to Delphi, and Phoebus sent me away as unworthy of the answers [had sought bout telling me other terible. awful things that | must sleep with my mother, and that | would bring to fight a brood unbearable For men to see, and thal | must he the slayer ‘of the father who sired me. I heard and fled, henceforth to share with Corinth only the stars, where | would never see completed the disgrace of those evil oracles of mine In my travels I eame to that place in which you say that your king was lost. ‘Anal to you, lady. I shall speak the truth, When traveling near that very triple road, ‘herald and a man riding there {in a chariot, like the man you described red me. Both the one in front and the old man himself drove me from the road with force. In my anger I struck the driver ming me olf the read, and the old man, when he sav, watehed me as T passed the chariot and struck me on the head with the two-pronged goad But he more than paid for it and soon was struck by the scepter Irom this very hand, lying, om his back, at once thrown out of the car 1 illed them all. But if that stranger hhad some connection with Laius, who would be more wretched than this man you sec? What man would be niore hateful 10 God, the man whom no man, foreign or eitzen, may receive at home, nor anyone address, 2 PRACTIOE MULTPLE-GHOIGE QUESTIONSoo 6s mo 85 90, 95 105 Daius Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNT ‘cHORUS OEDIPUS: JOCASTA: OEDIPUS. JOCASTA: OEDIPUS: JOCASTA\ OEDIPUS: JOCASTA, but all must cast from their house? And no other called down such eurses on me than myself Leven stain the dead man’s bed with the hands at whieh he perished. Amv so evil? Not entirely unboly? 1f] must flee, then in my flight may neither see my own kin nor step inside my fatherland, oF Lnust take my mother in marriage and kill my father Polybus, who raised and sired me. Who would not, judging these things, say truly im my case that they come from a cruel divinity? Never, 6 holy reverence of the gods, never may Isee this day but T would yther be blotted out from humanity before {saw this stain of my downs arive upon te Although these things wouble us, my lord, until you learn from the one who was present, have hope, Indeed, this much of hope is lelt to me only to awvalt that man, the herdsinan. ‘And what do you want of him, when he appears? I shall tell you; for ihe is found saying te same tale as yout, I shall have escaped this woe ‘What special tale did you hear from me? You said he reported that brigands Ualled Lain, Il, then, he still says the same number, 1 id not Kil Tim, For surely one man could not be equal to many. Bur if he clearly names a single man, a lone traveler then alteady this deed comes down upon me Yer, know that his account stood thus, and he cannot take it back now, for the city heard these things, not alone. But even if he does alter something from his previous story, not even thus, my lord, bring © Tight Laivs kaller wuly accomplished, whom, indeed, Loxias said must die atthe hands ‘of my child, Yet my poor boy never slew ‘him, but rather perished himself Tong before. And 0 I would not Took to prophecies, not here ot anywhere else You reason well, but, nevertheless, send someone to Feich the servant, and don't neglect it And soon 1 shall, but let us go inside the house, for | would do nothing but that it your wish, 26 PRACTIOE MDLTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSno us 120 130 135 140 145 155 160 Destin Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNIT [Exeunt omnes.) ‘CHORUS: Sir sin Ant, 2 only fate may find me still acting with reverent holiness in words and all my’ deeds, for which lefty laws are ordained, born in heaven above, their only father Olympus. no moral form of men bore them, nor does forgetfulness ever Inll hem 10 sleep, In ther fs a great god, who does not grow old, Audacity sires the tyrani—audacity if flee up rashly with all excess, neither timely nor useful sealing the highest eaves, rushes int precipitous nevessity where it sullers from its illeplaced foot 1 pray that God will never end the struggle that is good lor the eit: 1 will never eease elinging to God as my protector. ‘But if someone goes dlisdainful in hands or speech, nor Fearing Justice, nor revering the seats of the holy gods, let a bad fate take him, the-wages of unlucky insolence, unless he teaps hls profit justly and retreats tom impious acts, or fhe touches untouchable things im bis folly ‘What man can protect himself, warding away the shalts of anger when such things happen? For if deeds like this sre honored. why must dance? No longer will L worship at the inviolate navel of the world, nor at Abae, nor ever in the Olympian shrine, unless these events are made rmanifesly clear to all mortals, But, o powerful one, ifyou are conteetly called that, Zeus, who rule all things, may they not elude you and your eternal, deathless empire! 7 PRACTIGE MULTPLE-OHOGE QUESTIONS165 Oedius Rex ADVANCED PLACEMENT TEACHING UNT 16. 17, 18. 19, 20. For alteady the old prophecies of Laius are waning and being set aside. Apollo does not seem to be honored, {ith wanders, lst The fact of Polybus and Merope’s continuing to lie to Oedipus about his parentage helps illustrate the role of free will. fate or destiny. hamartia, catharsis peripeteia, FORE The dramatic impact of Oedipus’ telling Jocasta of his visit to the Oracle is that the audience A. witnesses Jocasta’s calamity. B, hears Oedipus’ story. C. sees Jocasta realize the wath. D. develops empathy for Oedipus. E. figures out the solution what evides wi 1c does this scene reveal that Oedipus still does not realize the truth? ‘A. He expresses no remorse for killing Laius. B, He believes he must banish himself from Thebes CC. He admits to visiting the Oracle D, He believes he cannot return to Corinth, E, He fears that his day of doom has arrived. Jocasta’s reluctance to send for the herdsman suggests that she is ‘A. aware of the whole truth, B. fearful that Oedipus might actually be Laius’ killer C. impatient to wait until the herdsman arrives. D, hurt by Oedipus’ apparent disbelief in her story. E. confident of Oedipus’ innocence. The Chorus’ final Antistrophe establishes what aspect of tragedy? the role of destiny the role of free will the role of divine wrath the role of worship the role of impiety mooRP> 28