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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Lucentio tell that he has killed a man and is taking on a disguise to protect himself in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Grumio
(b) Hortensio
(c) Curtis
(d) Biondello

2. The following lines of Hortensio’s in Act III, Scene I are an example of what literary technique? “How fiery and forward our Pedant is! / Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love: / Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.”
(a) Soliloquy
(b) Subtext
(c) Aside
(d) Interrogation

3. Who is the “the fat ale-wife of Wincot” that Christopher Sly mentions in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Katharina
(b) Madonna
(c) Bianca
(d) Marian Hacket

4. What does Katharina claim “are made to bear, and so are you” in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Stools
(b) Horses
(c) Asses
(d) Coxcombs

5. What did Petruchio throw “all in the sexton’s face” at the wedding, according to Gremio in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Ale
(b) Butter
(c) Sops
(d) Wine

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hortensio disguise himself as in order to move in on Bianca in Act I, Scene II?

2. Katharina says in Act II, Scene I, “If I be waspish, best beware” what?

3. Gremio says of Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “he took the bride about the neck / And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack / That at the parting all the church did” what?

4. What Elizabethan interjection does Gremio exclaim in Act II, Scene I?

5. What is Baptista’s last name in the play?

(see the answer key)

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