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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bianca begs Katharina to unbind what in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Her dog
(b) Her legs
(c) Her hands
(d) Her cat

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

3. What is the name of the Lord’s page in the Induction?
(a) Gremio
(b) Bartholomew
(c) Tranio
(d) Curtis

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

5. The Lord orders his page to disguise himself as what in the play’s Induction?
(a) A merchant
(b) A lady
(c) A priest
(d) A knight

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Tranio (in disguise) claims to be from where in Act II, Scene I?

3. Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “And where two raging fires meet together, / They do consume the thing that feeds” what?

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

5. What is Katharina’s response when Petruchio asks her in Act II, Scene I, “Why, what’s a moveable?”

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