I apologize for the delay in uploading the study questions for Oedipus at Colonus. BE sure you have read the entire short play,and have answered the following study questions. The first two sets are due Monday and will be stamped; the second set is due Tuesday. YOu will have a quiz on the reading up to the end of the second set of questions. Be ready to engage in discussion and writing about the play.
Great Books and AP English Lit Answer the questions that follow:
1. What has Oedipus learned from his years of begging and wandering in exile?
2. Where do Oedipus and Antigone tread at the beginning of the play?
3. How does the Citizen react to the strangers in the sacred grove?
4. What prayer does Oedipus offer after the Citizen leaves?
5. How does the Chorus react at first to the news that someone has trespassed on the sacred grove?
6. How does the Chorus react when Oedipus, haggard and blind, reveals himself?
7. How does the Chorus react when Oedipus gives his name?
8. How does Oedipus shame the Chorus into accepting him?
9. What news does Ismene bring?
10. How does Oedipus react to Ismene’s news?
1. What ceremony does the Leader of the Chorus explain to Oedipus?
2. How does Oedipus react when the Leader finishes explaining the ceremony?
3. What do Ismene and Antigone say after their father speaks to the Leader about the ceremony?
4. Why does the Chorus want Oedipus to recite the details of his life?
5. Why does Oedipus yield to the curiosity of the Chorus when the men press him for the details of his life?
6. Why does Theseus offer protection and the full rights of citizenship to Oedipus?
7. What gift does Oedipus promise to Theseus?
8. Why is Creon searching for Oedipus?
9. Why does Creon seize Ismene and Antigone?
10. Why will Creon be Theseus’ prisoner until the women are returned?
1. How does Theseus win back Ismene and Antigone?
2. How does Oedipus react when he is reunited with his daughters?
3. What promise does Theseus reaffirm to the family after the reunion?
4. Why does Polynices want to see his father?
5. How does Polynices begin the dialogue with his father?
6. How does Antigone feel about the visit from Polynices?
7. Oedipus reacts to Polynices how?
8. What happens between Oedipus and Polynices as their conversation continues?
9. What curse does Oedipus repeat to Polynices?
10. What promise does Polynices wrest from Antigone?
AP English Lit: (1) Download both songs to your MPS player or CD Player. You will write about in class. (2) Have your independent reading novel. You will begin reading this week, to have first literature circle meeting.
Great Books: Be sure to have your text on MOnday for the Discovering Great Books Assignment
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