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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Lord claims he would not lose his hunting hound for how much money in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) 50 pounds
(b) Sixpence
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 100 pounds

2. Katharina tells Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “You may be jogging whiles your boots are” what?
(a) New
(b) Green
(c) Harnessed
(d) Broken in

3. By what name does Gremio introduce Lucentio (in disguise) in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Petruchio
(b) Hortensio
(c) Litio
(d) Cambio

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

5. The Lord orders his page to disguise himself as what in the play’s Induction?
(a) A knight
(b) A lady
(c) A priest
(d) A merchant

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?

2. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?

3. Katharina states in Act III, Scene II, “I must, forsooth, be forced / To give my hand opposed against my heart / Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of” what?

4. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?

5. Bianca’s line “celsa senis” from Act III, Scene I translates to what in English?

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