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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Katharina claims she is giddy for lack of what in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Sleep
(b) Water
(c) Love
(d) Talk

3. What does Curtis call Grumio in Act IV Scene I?
(a) Toad-liver’d lout
(b) Three-inch fool
(c) Pox on humanity
(d) Valorous rogue

4. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?
(a) Hyperbolical
(b) Chantry
(c) Loutish
(d) Choler

5. The Pedant tells Baptista that he has come to Padua for what reason in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) To attend his daughter’s marriage
(b) To visit his grandmother
(c) To attend his son’s marriage
(d) To gather some debts

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?

2. Tranio (in disguise) claims to come and make himself suitor to whom in Act II, Scene I?

3. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?

4. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?

5. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain / She sings as sweetly as” what?

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