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

2. With which servant does Petruchio enter in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Tranio
(b) Grumio
(c) Gremio
(d) Litio

3. 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?
(a) Mead
(b) Scotch
(c) Ale
(d) Wine

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

5. Whom does “the shrew” refer to in the play?
(a) Bianca
(b) Viola
(c) Olivia
(d) Katharina

Short Answer Questions

1. Gremio claims that his scholar in Act II, Scene I “hath been long studying” where?

2. By what name does Petruchio introduce Hortensio (in disguise) in Act II?

3. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain / She sings as sweetly as” what?

4. What is the name of Petruchio’s recently deceased father in the play?

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

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