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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Katharina says in Act II, Scene I, “If I be waspish, best beware” what?
(a) My face
(b) Mine eyes
(c) My sting
(d) My words

2. What word does Katharina use in Act II, Scene I meaning a conceited, foolish dandy?
(a) Artisan
(b) Charlatan
(c) Coxcomb
(d) Harlequin

3. What does the Hostess demand that Christopher Sly pay for after having broken them in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) Windows
(b) Wine bottles
(c) Door frames
(d) Glasses

4. What Elizabethan interjection does Gremio exclaim in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Baccare
(b) Ho
(c) Alas
(d) Sirrah

5. 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) Wine
(b) Scotch
(c) Mead
(d) Ale

Short Answer Questions

1. What wealthy suitor to Bianca says of Katharina in Act I, Scene I, “To cart her rather: she's too rough for me”?

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

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

4. Petruchio states of Katharina in Act II, Scene I, “If she be curst, it is for policy, / For she's not froward, but modest as” what?

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

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