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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word does Petruchio speak in Act III, Scene II meaning to engage in drunken revel?
(a) Compensate
(b) Carouse
(c) Incriminate
(d) Discriminate

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

5. What does Petruchio’s line “Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato” translate to in English?
(a) With sorrow, I must ask you to leave
(b) With great regret, I inform you he is not home
(c) With all my heart, I’m glad to see you
(d) With great joy do I wed thee

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Petruchio states of Katharina in Act II, Scene I, “If she be curst, it is for policy, / For she's not froward, but modest as” what?

3. Who does Lucentio say AEacides was in Act III, Scene I?

4. 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?

5. For how many years do the Servants tell Christopher Sly he has been living in a dream in Scene II of the Induction?

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