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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?
(a) Tranio
(b) Baptista
(c) Bianca
(d) Hortensio

2. What word from Act III, Scene I refers to the whole series of recognized musical notes?
(a) Indication
(b) Allure
(c) Gamut
(d) Extrapolation

3. Bianca states in Act V, Scene I that “Cambio is changed into” whom?
(a) Hortensio
(b) Petruchio
(c) Bartholomew
(d) Lucentio

4. What hound does the First Huntsman claim “twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent” and is the better dog in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) Litio
(b) Belman
(c) Trumpet
(d) Bartholomew

5. 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.”
(a) Subtext
(b) Interrogation
(c) Soliloquy
(d) Aside

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Katharina’s response to Petruchio’s line, “Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour”?

2. Where does the Pedant claim to be from in Act IV, Scene II?

3. How many “vile terms” does Hortensio say Katharina called him in Act II, Scene I?

4. Vincentio claims that Tranio is a sail maker from where in Act V, Scene I?

5. What word from Scene I of the Induction refers to a service room in which barrels or bottles of alcoholic drink were stored?

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