Question

Read the following passage and answer the question. My children, latest generation born from Cadmus, why are you sitting here with wreathed sticks in supplication to me, while the city fills with incense, chants and cries of pain? … so I have come in person—I, Oedipus, whose fame all men acknowledge. … I shall assist you willingly in every way. I would be a hard-hearted man indeed, if I did not pity suppliants like these. What can we infer about Oedipus from the last three lines of the passage? that Oedipus is a hard-hearted man that Oedipus is easily angered that Oedipus is a good king and committed to helping his people that the Chorus bothers Oedipus

Answer 1

That Oedipus is a good king and committed to helping people.