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What did Teirisias tell Oedipus (select 2)

 

That Creon ordered him to speak

That he killed his father

That he was the murderer of Laius

That Oedipus caused his blindness

That the oracle lied

 

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                    Benjamin Franklin

                 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

1 - In the year 1716, or about that period, a boy used to be seen in the streets of Boston who was known among his schoolfellows and playmates by the name of Ben Franklin. Ben was born in 1706; so that he was now about ten years old. His father, who had come over from England, was a soap-boiler and tallow-chandler, and resided in Milk Street, not far from the Old South Church.
 
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