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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?
(a) Domineer
(b) Incriminate
(c) Dispose
(d) Arraign

2. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?
(a) A schoolmaster
(b) A priest
(c) A gentlewoman
(d) A musician

3. What is Katharina’s response when Petruchio asks her in Act II, Scene I, “Why, what’s a moveable?”
(a) Art thou not
(b) A join’d-stool
(c) Thy father
(d) You are, sir

4. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing a pair of boots that have been what in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Shop stools
(b) Tissue boxes
(c) Candle-cases
(d) Laundry boards

5. Act I, Scene II takes place before whose house?
(a) Lucentio’s
(b) Hortensio’s
(c) Baptista’s
(d) Biondello’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Christopher Sly claims that the Slys are no rogues and that they came in with whom in Scene I of the Induction?

2. By what name does Gremio introduce Lucentio (in disguise) in Act II, Scene I?

3. When Christopher Sly awakens in the Lord’s bedchamber in Scene II of the Induction, what does he request a pot of from the servants?

4. What is Katharina’s response to Petruchio’s line, “Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour”?

5. Gremio claims that his scholar in Act II, Scene I “hath been long studying” where?

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