"Oedipus the King" Final Test Review

What is a hamartia?

What is hubris?

What injury happened to baby Oedipus that still affects him while he is King?

Which of the following is true about 5th Century Greek people and culture?

____ is brother-in-law and uncle to Oedipus, brother to Jocasta, and takes over for Oedipus as King of Thebes.

Dionysus’s mother was a Theban.

What does the Chorus remind the audience of at the end of the play?

Who are Oedipus’s adoptive parents?

_____ acts as the narrator as well as the voice of the people of the city Thebes.

How does Jocasta die?

What is true about Oedipus the King?

Why did Jocasta give her infant son away?

_____ is the former King of Thebes who was murdered during the riddle of the Sphinx.

Of the three genres of plays, which was considered to be the most influential and important?

What is not shown on stage in Greek Theater?

____ brought the news of Polybus's death, and gave the barren King and Queen of Corinth a baby to raise as their own.

The_____ is who Laius was on his way to consult when he was murdered, andwho Creon went to consult about the new plague.

Which type of irony is in Oedipus the King?

____ is a servant of the house of Laius ordered to destroy a baby,but gave him to someone else. Lone survivor of attack

Laius was murdered at a three-way crossroads.

What is the ultimate emotional effect a Tragedy play is intended to have on the audience?

Oedipus has two daughters and three sons.

Who are Oedipus’s birth parents?

_____ is the adopted Prince of Corinth and the appointed King of Thebes who has the tragic flaw of hubris.

_____ is the city that is struck by a plague that makes women barren and disallows crops to grow.

Which type of irony is defined as when a character wants something that is not what the gods have ordained for them?

What is the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx?

Which type of irony can be defined as the use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says?

What does Oedipus use to blind himself?

Which oracle does Oedipus mirror at the end of the play?

Jocasta gave her infant son to a servant to do what with?

Which type of irony can be defined as when the audience is aware of something that the characters are not aware of?

Which type of irony can be defined as when the opposite of what is expected to happen actually happens?

____ is the blind oracle who Oedipus argues with, provokes, and mocks until he shares the truth he knows.

_____ are the daughters and sisters to Oedipus, who Oedipus weeps for after being banished from Thebes.

_____ is the God that the Thebans pray to and that speaks through the oracles of the play.

How did Oedipus become the King of Thebes?

Creon refuses to let Oedipus “see” his daughters at the end of the play.

The people of Thebes didn’t look for Laius’s murderer because they were too concerned about the riddle of the Sphinx.

Of what does Oedipus accuse Creon?

_____ is a large creature from mythology that was killing people if they could not correctly answer her riddle.

_____ is the Queen of Thebes and wife and mother to Oedipus.