Oedipus The King Test

Question 1

Cortege

Answer 1

A procession, as in a funeral

Question 2

Swarthy

Answer 2

Dark of skin color

Question 3

Explicit

Answer 3

Fully, clearly expressed

Question 4

Mantic

Answer 4

Having prophetic powere

Question 5

Herald

Answer 5

Royal messenger

Question 6

Inviolate

Answer 6

Free from desecration

Question 7

Oblivion

Answer 7

Complete forgetfulness

Question 8

Corinth

Answer 8

An ancient port city-state in the south of Greece

Question 9

Cithaeren

Answer 9

A mountain range in Greece

Question 10

Arcturus

Answer 10

Chief star in the constellation we call the Big Dipper

Question 11

Stasimon

Answer 11

Paragraph??

Question 12

Dipous

Answer 12

Greek word for feet

Question 13

Dustene

Answer 13

In Greek it means man of agony

Question 14

How does the story begin?

Answer 14

At a royal house of Thebes. Years after Oedipus solved the sphinx’s riddle. There is a plague going on.

Question 15

What does the oracle at Delphi reveal?

Answer 15

Whoever killed King Laius must be killed

Question 16

Who Tieresias? Why is he called?

Answer 16

Tieresias is a prophet. He was called because he would know who the murderer is.

Question 17

What happens to Oedipus, Jocasta, and their children?

Answer 17

Oedipus gouges out his eyes with Jocasta’s brooches and his banishes, Jocasta hangs herself, children left in care of Creon