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How many of Sophocles' 125 plays survived? |
| | A) | 124 |
| | B) | 130 |
| | C) | 100 |
| | D) | 10 |
| | E) | 7 |
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2 | |
Oedipus Rex is about a Hero who... |
| | A) | kills his father. |
| | B) | blinds himself. |
| | C) | seeks the murderer of the King of Thebes. |
| | D) | marries his mother. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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3 | |
Oedipus Rex solves the riddle of... |
| | A) | his identity. |
| | B) | the Sphinx. |
| | C) | the riddle of the murder of the King of Thebes |
| | D) | the riddle of the curse that lead him to flee from Corinth to avoid killing his father. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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At the end of Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus is _______ by the Furies. |
| | A) | killed |
| | B) | accepted |
| | C) | stoned |
| | D) | exiled |
| | E) | married |
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The answer to the riddle of the Sphinx is... |
| | A) | knowledge. |
| | B) | Apollo. |
| | C) | man. |
| | D) | God. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Antigone chooses to risk death because... |
| | A) | she has been "ruined." |
| | B) | she wanted to bury her brother. |
| | C) | she wanted to be queen. |
| | D) | she learned her father was dead. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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During Sophocles' life, Athens fought what city-state in the Peloponnesian War? |
| | A) | Thebes |
| | B) | Egypt |
| | C) | Greece |
| | D) | Rome |
| | E) | Gaul |
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Which of the following was NOT one of the functions of the Athenian constitution? |
| | A) | Women's rights. |
| | B) | Mechanisms for government. |
| | C) | Preventing special interest groups from gaining too much power. |
| | D) | Preventing individuals from gaining too much power. |
| | E) | Procuring justice. |
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During the Peloponnesian War, who did the Athenians turn to? |
| | A) | Apollo. |
| | B) | The Emperor. |
| | C) | Women. |
| | D) | Generals. |
| | E) | Teachers |
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Another name for the Furies, the Eumenides, means... |
| | A) | the Goddess. |
| | B) | the cursed ones. |
| | C) | the kindly ones. |
| | D) | the Amazons. |
| | E) | pale queens. |
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In the culture of Greece at the time of Sophocles' plays, trust in human experience also conveyed the idea that humans... |
| | A) | increasingly distrusted the actions of the gods. |
| | B) | were growing more used to anarchy. |
| | C) | were allowing more promiscuous behavior. |
| | D) | could violate taboos with impunity. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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12 | |
The Oedipus cycle of plays was written in what order? |
| | A) | Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone |
| | B) | Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex, Antigone |
| | C) | Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex |
| | D) | Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus |
| | E) | Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus |
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How much time separated the first play of the Oedipus cycle form the last? |
| | A) | 1 year |
| | B) | 3 months |
| | C) | 3 years |
| | D) | 40 years |
| | E) | 100 years |
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The plague suffered by the city of Thebes in Oedipus Rex was relevant to the Athenian audience because plague had entered their city when... |
| | A) | they imported warriors from China. |
| | B) | they imported warriors from Egypt. |
| | C) | they imported infested livestock. |
| | D) | people fleeing the Peloponnesian War overwhelmed the sanitary system. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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15 | |
Many Greek tragedies revolved around violating universal taboos. Which was NOT one of those taboos? |
| | A) | Regicide. |
| | B) | Matricide. |
| | C) | Incest. |
| | D) | Patricide. |
| | E) | Matrimony. |
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Jocasta believed that the appalling urges to commit these universal taboos was revealed... |
| | A) | by soothsayers. |
| | B) | by dreams. |
| | C) | by parents. |
| | D) | by children. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Freud compares Oedipus ferreting out the riddle of his identity with ... |
| | A) | ferreting out the concerns of the unconscious. |
| | B) | people's indifference to universal taboos. |
| | C) | ignorance concerning the cause of plagues. |
| | D) | discerning the order of nature. |
| | E) | infanticide. |
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18 | |
In Freud's theory, the Oedipal complex is... |
| | A) | the desire of males to kill their father and marry their mother. |
| | B) | the desire of males to kill their parents and marry their sisters. |
| | C) | the desire of males to be women. |
| | D) | the desire of women to become like their fathers. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Apollo functions in the plot through... |
| | A) | the seer, Tiersias. |
| | B) | the King of Thebes. |
| | C) | the Oracle of Delphi. |
| | D) | the dreams of Jocasta. |
| | E) | the children of Oedipus. |
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Why does Apollo punish Thebes? |
| | A) | Because they cease to worship him. |
| | B) | Because they are warring with Athens. |
| | C) | Because they were blasphemous to Zeus. |
| | D) | Because they sided with the Dionysus in opposition to him. |
| | E) | Because they failed to find and punish the murderer of the King of Thebes. |
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Which was NOT one of the reasons thought to be the cause of Tiresias blindness? |
| | A) | He witnessed Hera. |
| | B) | He saw Athene bathing. |
| | C) | When asked by Hera who enjoyed sex more, men or women, he chose women. |
| | D) | He was born that way. |
| | E) | He revealed the mysteries of the nature of the gods to humans. |
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Tiresias was also punished by... |
| | A) | having no children. |
| | B) | spending a year as a woman. |
| | C) | having to give up his wife to Heracles. |
| | D) | never being allowed to wear clothes. |
| | E) | never having his prophecies believed. |
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Jocasta killed herself because she... |
| | A) | could not bear the knowledge that she had slept with her own son. |
| | B) | could not bear to kill Oedipus. |
| | C) | could not bear to kill her children. |
| | D) | could not bear to have more appalling dreams. |
| | E) | loved Tiresias. |
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As a baby, Oedipus was abandoned on a hillside by his father because... |
| | A) | it was foretold he would kill his father. |
| | B) | it was foretold he would kill his brother. |
| | C) | it was foretold he would grow up to be a woman. |
| | D) | it was found out that he was actually the son of Zeus. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Oedipus meets his true father... |
| | A) | along the road. |
| | B) | in Egypt |
| | C) | in the Underworld |
| | D) | in Rome. |
| | E) | in Elysium. |
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When Oedipus meets his father... |
| | A) | he kills him. |
| | B) | his father tries to strike him. |
| | C) | he does not recognize his father. |
| | D) | his father does not recognize him. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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The Sphinx can be thought of as representative of the Great Goddess because... |
| | A) | it had the mind of a scorned woman. |
| | B) | it had the physical aspects of a woman. |
| | C) | it had the body of a serpent. |
| | D) | it had been born of Gaea. |
| | E) | it tried to kill Oedipus as representative of masculinity. |
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When Oedipus is blinded he comes to realize... |
| | A) | that all humans grope blindly in a world they cannot comprehend. |
| | B) | that the gods are not compelled to explain their mysteries to humans. |
| | C) | that human logic is insufficient to understand the workings of the gods. |
| | D) | that the concept that life has a clear purpose is an illusion. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Oedipus can be considered to triumph in the end because... |
| | A) | he takes the people's sin on himself. |
| | B) | he accepts his fate without blaming the gods. |
| | C) | he accepts his limitations. |
| | D) | he does not choose death. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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