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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 III, Scene II?
(a) A street in Padua
(b) Petruchio’s country house
(c) Before Baptista’s house
(d) Lucentio’s house

2. What word does Katharina use in Act II, Scene I meaning a conceited, foolish dandy?
(a) Charlatan
(b) Coxcomb
(c) Harlequin
(d) Artisan

3. What is the setting for Act II?
(a) A room in Baptista’s house
(b) Petruchio’s country house
(c) A bedchamber in the Lord's house
(d) Before Lucentia’s house

4. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Hortensio
(b) Gremio
(c) Baptista
(d) Biondello

5. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Dandy
(c) Fool
(d) Pedant

Short Answer Questions

1. The Pedant worries in Act IV, Scene IV that Baptista will recognize him because twenty years ago they were lodgers at what establishment in Genoa?

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

3. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?

4. 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.”

5. The Lord claims he would not lose his hunting hound for how much money in Scene I of the Induction?

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