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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting for Act III, Scene I?
(a) Before Hortensio’s house
(b) Baptista’s house
(c) Before Lucentio’s house
(d) Before an alehouse

2. 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

3. Petruchio introduces Hortensio, disguised as a schoolmaster, and tells Baptista that he is from where in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Messaline
(b) Verona
(c) Pisa
(d) Mantua

4. What is the setting for Act III, Scene II?
(a) A street in Padua
(b) Lucentio’s house
(c) Before Baptista’s house
(d) Petruchio’s country house

5. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?
(a) Tranio
(b) Baptista
(c) Hortensio
(d) Bianca

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Petruchio tells Baptista that he and Katharina will wed on which day in Act II, Scene I?

4. When Baptista asks Hortensio if his daughter will prove a good musician in Act II, Scene I, Hortensio replies that “she’ll sooner prove” what?

5. Gremio says of Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “he took the bride about the neck / And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack / That at the parting all the church did” what?

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