Oedipus And The Myths Of Thebes Full Test Bank Ch.18 9e

Chapter 18: Oedipus and the Myths of Thebes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 01

1. Thebes is the principal city in the plain of _______.

a. Attica

b. Thessaly

c. Boeotia

d. Aetolia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 02

2. What does Cadmus find when he goes in search of the comrades he sent to get water for a sacrifice?

a. The Sphinx

b. Twins abandoned at a spring

c. An entrance to the underworld

d. A huge serpent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 03

3. The Sparti are the “_______,” and ancestors of the major aristocratic families of Thebes.

a. sown men

b. citizens of Sparta

c. lost tribe

d. found men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 04

4. Whom did Cadmus marry after his years of servitude to Ares?

a. Harmonia

b. Ino

c. Autonoë

d. Sidonia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 05

5. At the end of their life, Cadmus and his wife are changed into _______ and sent to the Elysian Fields.

a. doves

b. serpents

c. nightingales

d. hares

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 06

6. Who are the children of Antiopê and Zeus?

a. Labdacus

b. Zethus

c. Lycus

d. Amphion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 07

7. Cadmus’ name is Semitic in origin and means “_______.”

a. builder of walls

b. city-founder

c. man from the East

d. bringer of civilization

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 08

8. Which of the following early Greek terms for the alphabet are associatd with Cadmus?

a. phoinikeia grammata, “Phoenician scratchings”

b. kadmeia, “Cadmeian things”

c. sêmata kala, “beautiful signs”

d. Thêbaia sêmata, “Theban signs”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 09

9. The mighty walls of Thebes had _______ gates.

a. five

b. seven

c. four

d. ten

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 10

10. What is meaning of Oedipus’ name?

a. “ruler from afar”

b. “foundling”

c. “father-slayer”

d. “swollen foot”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 11

11. What is the answer to the Sphinx’s riddle?

a. “Eternity”

b. “Birth”

c. “A human”

d. “Death”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 12

12. What is the name of Sophocles’ play—the most famous play from antiquity—which treats story of Oedipus’ shocking discovery about himself?

a. “Oedipus the King”

b. “Oedipus at Colonus”

c. “Antigone”

d. “Oedipus Undone”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 13

13. Whom does Oedipus think are his real parents?

a. Celeus and Metanira

b. Polybus and Meropê

c. Ino and Athamas

d. Amphion and Niobê

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 14

14. What does Oedipus do when he learns the truth and sees the dead body of his wife/mother Jocasta?

a. He tries to throw himself off the edge of the Cadmeia

b. He stabs himself with the pins that were used to bind his feet as an infant

c. He orders a servant to chop off his hands

d. He stabs out his eyes with pins from Jocasta’s robe

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 15

15. Which of the Seven Against Thebes was a seer who argued vehemently against the war?

a. Hippomedon

b. Eriphylê

c. Parthenopeus

d. Amphiaraüs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 16

16. Where does Oedipus finally settle after he wanders out of Thebes?

a. The Acropolis in Athens

b. The Temple of Hera in Argos

c. The Grove of the Furies in Colonus

d. The Telesterion in Eleusis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 17

17. How does Capaneus die?

a. He boasts that not even Zeus can stop him and is then struck by lightning

b. The earth opens up and swallows his chariot

c. He is mortally wounded by Melanippus

d. Eteocles kills him in single combat

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 18

18. Who alone of the Seven Against Thebes escapes the battle?

a. Amphiaraüs

b. Hippomedon

c. Parthenopeus

d. Adrastus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 19

19. Antionê is engaged to _______.

a. Creon

b. Laodamas

c. Thersander

d. Haemon

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 20

20. Sophocles’ play Antigone reflects a philosophical conflict between the laws of which two notions?

a. stasis

b. physis

c. nomos

d. logos

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 18 - Question 21

21.

Polynices is seen here bribing _______ with the necklace of Harmonia.

a. Antiopê

b. Dircê

c. Ismenê

d. Eriphylê