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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?
(a) Before Hortensio’s house
(b) Before an alehouse
(c) Before Baptista’s house
(d) A room in Petruchio’s house

2. To whom is Lucentio speaking in the opening of Act I, Scene I?
(a) Orsino
(b) Tranio
(c) The Hostess
(d) Baptista

3. What is Katharina’s response when Petruchio asks her in Act II, Scene I, “Why, what’s a moveable?”
(a) You are, sir
(b) Art thou not
(c) Thy father
(d) A join’d-stool

4. From where is Lucentio traveling in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Paris
(b) Mantua
(c) Venice
(d) Pisa

5. Whom does Lucentio tell that he has killed a man and is taking on a disguise to protect himself in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Biondello
(b) Grumio
(c) Curtis
(d) Hortensio

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing Katharina’s dowry in Act II, Scene I, Baptista states that he who weds his daughter will receive upon his death half of all his land and how many crowns?

2. What wife of Socrates does Petruchio mention in Act I, Scene II?

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

4. Act I, Scene I of The Taming of the Shrew is set in a public place in what city?

5. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say she be mute and will not speak a word; / Then I'll commend her” what?

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