quiz

Question 1

What is hubris

Answer 1

excessive rpide

Question 2

Acoornind to aritstole, a tradegy should be

Answer 2

Serious, Complete, Of a certain magntidaue

Question 3

Accoridng to artisilole, which play was the perfect trageday

Answer 3

Oedipus Rex

Question 4

How do tragedies often begin

Answer 4

In the middle

Question 5

A tragic hero must experience a recogition and a reversal

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Tragic heros must be

Answer 6

Noble or high class, neigther good or bad, has a tragic fkaw

Question 7

Artisiol eas the first person to offer literally ciriicism on greek tragdies

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is dramitic irnony

Answer 8

When the auidence knows more then the charatcer

Question 9

What is catharaisis

Answer 9

An emotional cleansing or relases eusualyl felt by the audicne

Question 10

The audience of a tragedye experiences pity and fear

Answer 10

True

Question 11

What is the setting of Oedipus Rex

Answer 11

Thebes

Question 12

Who is the suthor of the play Oediqpus Rex

Answer 12

Sophocles

Question 13

There is a plague in the city of thebes and the people want oediq[us to free them from it

Answer 13

True

Question 14

What has oedipus done to work toward ending the plague

Answer 14

Summoned the seer, tiressias, to tell him what he he knows,
Sent his brother in law, Creon to the opracle delphi

Question 15

Who is Creon

Answer 15

Oedipus brother in law, Jocastas Brother

Question 16

WHo is Jocasta

Answer 16

Queen of thebes, Oedipus wife, oedpus mother

Question 17

Tireasias is eager to tell oedipus the truth

Answer 17

False

Question 18

What does tiesias reval to oedipus

Answer 18

Oedipus is the mruderer he seeks, Oedipus is the reaosn for the plague, Oedipus is both son and husband to his wife

Question 19

Oedipus saying” I stopped the sphinx! With no help from the birds, the flight of my own intelligence hit the mark” is

Answer 19

Hubris

Question 20

What emotions does the auidnece expiernce for Oedipus

Answer 20

pity and fear

Question 21

WHo does oedipus blame for sonsipring agaisnt him when tiressias tells him that he is the murder

Answer 21

Creon and tireasias