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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom is Lucentio speaking in the opening of Act I, Scene I?
(a) The Hostess
(b) Tranio
(c) Orsino
(d) Baptista

2. 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

3. The Pedant tells Baptista that he has come to Padua for what reason in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) To gather some debts
(b) To attend his daughter’s marriage
(c) To attend his son’s marriage
(d) To visit his grandmother

4. What is Baptista’s last name in the play?
(a) Minola
(b) Minalta
(c) Antola
(d) Lucretius

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?

2. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?

3. Who does Tranio claim is the master of “the taming-school” in Act IV, Scene II?

4. Who exits with Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II?

5. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?

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