OEDIPUS REX TEST REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Direct Characterization ANSW✅✅Author directly describes character
indirect characterization ANSW✅✅The character is revealed through their personality,
appearance, words, actions, and effect on others
Anagnorisis ANSW✅✅recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to
knowledge
Hamartia ANSW✅✅a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Hubris ANSW✅✅excessive pride
Vile ANSW✅✅morally reprehensible
Banish ANSW✅✅send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.
Who are Oedipus' adoptive parents? ANSW✅✅Polybus and Merope
What is the Chorus? ANSW✅✅The Chorus is a single character who, as developed in Greek
drama, functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play's plot and themes.
Where was Oedipus raised? ANSW✅✅Corinth
How does Jocasta react to the shepherd's story? ANSW✅✅She begs Oedipus to stop asking
questions.
Who said it? "This day will bring your birth and your destruction." ANSW✅✅Teiresias
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Direct Characterization ANSW✅✅Author directly describes character
indirect characterization ANSW✅✅The character is revealed through their personality,
appearance, words, actions, and effect on others
Anagnorisis ANSW✅✅recognition or discovery on the part of the hero; change from ignorance to
knowledge
Hamartia ANSW✅✅a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine
Hubris ANSW✅✅excessive pride
Vile ANSW✅✅morally reprehensible
Banish ANSW✅✅send (someone) away from a country or place as an official punishment.
Who are Oedipus' adoptive parents? ANSW✅✅Polybus and Merope
What is the Chorus? ANSW✅✅The Chorus is a single character who, as developed in Greek
drama, functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play's plot and themes.
Where was Oedipus raised? ANSW✅✅Corinth
How does Jocasta react to the shepherd's story? ANSW✅✅She begs Oedipus to stop asking
questions.
Who said it? "This day will bring your birth and your destruction." ANSW✅✅Teiresias
