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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act IV.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to a close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, as worn in the 16th and 17th centuries?
(a) Boggin
(b) Jerkin
(c) Doublet
(d) Coverlet

2. What is the setting of Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Before Baptista’s house
(b) Petruchio’s country house
(c) A room in Baptista’s house
(d) Lucentio’s house

3. Gremio claims that his scholar in Act II, Scene I “hath been long studying” where?
(a) Messaline
(b) Venice
(c) Rheims
(d) Paris

4. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?
(a) Foolish knave
(b) Fair gentleman
(c) Half lunatic
(d) Coxcomb

5. In Act II, Scene I, what does Petruchio say “are for winds, / That shake not, though they blow perpetually”?
(a) Flowers
(b) Mountains
(c) Trees
(d) Buildings

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?

2. According to Curtis in Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio lectures Katharina on what in their bridal chamber?

3. Who speaks the following line in Act III, Scene II: “Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work”?

4. The Pedant worries in Act IV, Scene IV that Baptista will recognize him because twenty years ago they were lodgers at what establishment in Genoa?

5. What is Katharina’s response when Petruchio asks her in Act II, Scene I, “Why, what’s a moveable?”

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