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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What wife of Socrates does Petruchio mention in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Aegina
(b) Charmidia
(c) Laertia
(d) Xanthippe

4. Act I, Scene II takes place before whose house?
(a) Lucentio’s
(b) Hortensio’s
(c) Baptista’s
(d) Biondello’s

5. Christopher Sly claims that his present occupation is that of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) A tailor
(b) A haberdasher
(c) A tinker
(d) An innkeeper

Short Answer Questions

1. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?

2. The Lord claims he would not lose his hunting hound for how much money in Scene I of the Induction?

3. The Lord’s page tells Christopher Sly that the play he is about to watch is a kind of what in Scene II of the Induction?

4. What does the First Servant offer to Christopher Sly after he awakens in the Lord’s bedchamber in Scene II of the Induction?

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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