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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Scene I of the Induction refers to a service room in which barrels or bottles of alcoholic drink were stored?
(a) Incendiary
(b) Buttery
(c) Accoutrement
(d) Attic

2. What is the name of Petruchio’s recently deceased father in the play?
(a) Baptista
(b) Antonio
(c) Lord Oberly
(d) Orsino

3. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?
(a) A priest
(b) A schoolmaster
(c) A musician
(d) A gentlewoman

4. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?
(a) Before Baptista’s house
(b) A room in Petruchio’s house
(c) Before an alehouse
(d) Before Hortensio’s house

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say she be mute and will not speak a word; / Then I'll commend her” what?

3. What is the name of Baptista’s eldest daughter in the play?

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

5. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?

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