The name of the blind seer in Oedipus is Kreon.

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1. Why does Death use the word cruelly?
2. Which of the following best summarizes God’s admonition?
3. In context, the excerpt says that __________.
4. In context, the excerpt depicts heaven and hell as __________.
5. In context, the excerpt depicts the world in which Everyman lives as __________.
6. The end of a Greek play is called Exodos.
7. Oedipus Rex distinguishes itself from the typical classical plot by indicating what can happen to those who disobey, mock, or disbelieve the gods.
8. Richard Caxton printed Everyman in English in the early 1600’s.
9. Everyman states in the play Everyman: “ O gracious God, in the high seat celestial, / Have mercy on me in this most need; / Shall I have no company from this vale terrestrial / Of mine acquaintance that way to me lead?”
   In this excerpt, Everyman pleads to God to allow help from ________.
10. All actors in Greek drama were male.
11. “Quem Quoeritis” is the only extant Medieval English morality play.
12. Greek theatre invented the drop-curtain device.
13. English drama began as an aid to church liturgy.
14. In Greek theater, actors dressed behind a circular curtain.
15. Oedipus declares that he is no murderer.
16. Antigone and Ismene are Oedipus’ daughter and son, respectively.
17. Aeschylus was a student of Sophocles.
18. According to the “Three Unities,” action was restricted to one main action with few or no subplots.
19. Both men and women served in the Greek chorus.
20. Miracle plays used variety in subject matter and plot.
21. Oedipus Rex begins after a plague has begun.
22. The doctor (teacher) in Everyman says that _____ will forsake you.
23. Desdemona is as dishonest as Iago.
24. Everyman states in the play Everyman: “Alas, shall I have no longer respite? / I may say Death giveth no warning: / To think on thee, it maketh my heart sick, / For all unready is my book of reckoning.”  The main claim of this excerpt is that
25. Choose the incorrect statement.
26. The Greeks were a war-like culture and enjoyed seeing bloodshed on the stage.
27. “Quem Quoeritis” is the second oldest extant liturgical drama from England.
28. Morality plays bridged the gap between Medieval drama and _____.
29. Because so much of the Greek population desired to enjoy the benefits of royalty, there were often on-stage conflicts between actors playing commoners and kings.
30. The chorus in Greek drama always remains on stage.
31. The prologue of Oedipus Rex does not
32. In Everyman, who does not speak?
33. Oedipus speaks of _____ as seer and student of mysteries.
34. According to Plato, a Greek critic, a tragic hero must fall from high to low estate.
35. According to Fellowship in Everyman, what is duty?
36. The beggar in “Quem Quoeritis” pleads that he be included in Christ’s resurrection.
37. A “tragic flaw” always results in a complete loss.
38. In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Alas the seed of men./…/ That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?” In context, what do lines 2-3 — “That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?”—mean?
39. The name of the blind seer in Oedipus is Kreon.
40. Aeschylus and Sophocles used the annual March festival that Pisistratus instituted in 534 B.C. to initiate many contributions to the development of drama.
41. Greek choral odes are the precursors of Shakespearean soliloquies.
42. Jokasta in Oedipus Rex thinks at one point that her baby
43. Miracle plays became obsolete largely from the re-emergence of Roman models of drama.
44. Everyman’s theme is that life is transitory.
45. “Hamartia” is a criminal act committed in ignorance of some material fact or even for the sake of greater good.
46. Aristotle, the Greek critic, said that a tragic hero could either be a nobleman or a common man.
47. Ancient Greek drama was not original, because the playwright took his plots/story from the familiar myths of the gods.
48. Aristotle, the Greek critic, said that a tragic hero should be a nobleman.
49. Elizabethan drama held to the single day theory of Classical drama.
50. Denouement is the rising action.

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