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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Coxcomb
(b) Half lunatic
(c) Fair gentleman
(d) Foolish knave

2. Where does Baptista invite his guests to take a walk before dinner in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Through the city
(b) Through the orchard
(c) To Katharina’s room
(d) To the church

3. Whose “dagger was not come from sheathing” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Walter’s
(b) Nathaniel’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Gabriel’s

4. What is Katharina’s response to Petruchio’s line, “Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour”?
(a) Call me Katharina, fool, or thine eyes will shine
(b) Dost thou find me sour? I’ll quench thy thirst
(c) Sour as to lemons, wouldst thou have some
(d) It is my fashion, when I see a crab

5. 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?
(a) The Phoenix
(b) The Black Bear
(c) The Pegasus
(d) The Elephant

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Petruchio throw “all in the sexton’s face” at the wedding, according to Gremio in Act III, Scene II?

2. What gift does Tranio (in disguise) bestow upon Baptista in Act II, Scene I?

3. What is brought in by the Servants for Petruchio and Katharina’s dinner in Act IV, Scene I?

4. How many “vile terms” does Hortensio say Katharina called him in Act II, Scene I?

5. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?

(see the answer key)

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