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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?
(a) Obstinate
(b) Cautionary
(c) Peremptory
(d) Incendiary

3. 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) Grumio
(c) Tranio
(d) Baptista

4. Biondello claims that a Pedant or what is coming down the hill in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Black knight
(b) Priest
(c) Mercatante
(d) Lord Duncan

5. Hortensio claims that he will marry a wealthy widow before how many days pass in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) 2
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks the following lines in Act IV, Scene I: “Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and / all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever / man so rayed?”

2. Why does Grumio say his master beat him while traveling after the wedding in Act IV, Scene I?

3. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?

4. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”

5. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?

(see the answer key)

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