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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Baptista’s last name in the play?
(a) Minalta
(b) Minola
(c) Lucretius
(d) Antola

2. For how many years do the Servants tell Christopher Sly he has been living in a dream in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) 12
(b) 20
(c) 5
(d) 15

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) You are, sir
(d) Thy father

4. What is the name of Baptista’s youngest daughter in the play?
(a) Bianca
(b) Katharina
(c) Viola
(d) Maria

5. The Lord’s page tells Christopher Sly that the play he is about to watch is a kind of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Comedy
(b) History
(c) Tragedy
(d) Morality play

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Lord orders his page to disguise himself as what in the play’s Induction?

4. 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?

5. What does the Hostess demand that Christopher Sly pay for after having broken them in Scene I of the Induction?

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