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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Belman
(b) Trumpet
(c) Bartholomew
(d) Litio

2. 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.”
(a) Interrogation
(b) Soliloquy
(c) Subtext
(d) Aside

3. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?
(a) Gremio
(b) Hortensio
(c) Lucentio
(d) Grumio

4. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?
(a) Monk
(b) Coxcomb
(c) Vicar
(d) Chantry

5. 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) Dost thou find me sour? I’ll quench thy thirst
(c) Sour as to lemons, wouldst thou have some
(d) Call me Katharina, fool, or thine eyes will shine

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Hostess demand that Christopher Sly pay for after having broken them in Scene I of the Induction?

2. What is the name of the Lord’s page in the Induction?

3. When Petruchio and company enter after the wedding in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio claims that he must leave before when?

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

5. What Elizabethan interjection does Gremio exclaim in Act II, Scene I?

(see the answer key)

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