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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Hortensio’s house
(d) Before an alehouse

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

3. Act I, Scene I of The Taming of the Shrew is set in a public place in what city?
(a) Verona
(b) Padua
(c) Venice
(d) Lombardy

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

5. Hortensio claims that he will marry a wealthy widow before how many days pass in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 3

Short Answer Questions

1. Petruchio claims to be a gentleman from where when he introduces himself in Act II, Scene I?

2. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”

3. Gremio says of Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “he took the bride about the neck / And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack / That at the parting all the church did” what?

4. 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.”

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?

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