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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 wealthy suitor to Bianca says of Katharina in Act I, Scene I, “To cart her rather: she's too rough for me”?
(a) Gremio
(b) Baptista
(c) Grumio
(d) Tranio

2. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Baptista
(b) Gremio
(c) Biondello
(d) Hortensio

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?
(a) Tragedy
(b) History
(c) Comedy
(d) Morality play

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

5. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?
(a) A gentlewoman
(b) A schoolmaster
(c) A priest
(d) A musician

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lucentio’s destination when he stops for a brief visit in Act I, Scene I?

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

3. What instrument do the Players sound in Scene I of the Induction?

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

5. What does Petruchio’s line “Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato” translate to in English?

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