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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?
(a) Katharina’s bedchamber
(b) Baptista’s office
(c) Lucentio’s drawing room
(d) The kitchen

2. What wife of Socrates does Petruchio mention in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Xanthippe
(b) Laertia
(c) Aegina
(d) Charmidia

3. Upon entering in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio remarks of Katharina, “To me she's married, not unto my” what?
(a) Clothes
(b) Money
(c) Estate
(d) Finery

4. What is the name of the Lord’s page in the Induction?
(a) Tranio
(b) Bartholomew
(c) Gremio
(d) Curtis

5. What is Lucentio’s destination when he stops for a brief visit in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Mantua
(b) Lombardy
(c) Burtonheath
(d) Messaline

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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.”

4. Petruchio tells Baptista that he and Katharina will wed on which day in Act II, Scene I?

5. What word does Petruchio speak in Act III, Scene II meaning to engage in drunken revel?

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