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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?
(a) Nylon
(b) Chantry
(c) Fustian
(d) Flax

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

3. When Hortensio reenters in Act II, Scene I, what is described about his body as being “broke”?
(a) His wrist
(b) His head
(c) His leg
(d) His arm

4. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?
(a) Before Hortensio’s house
(b) Before Baptista’s house
(c) A room in Petruchio’s house
(d) Before an alehouse

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Lucentio speaking in the opening of Act I, Scene I?

2. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?

3. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?

4. By what name does Petruchio introduce Hortensio (in disguise) in Act II?

5. Who speaks the following line in Act III, Scene II: “Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work”?

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