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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 brought in by the Servants for Petruchio and Katharina’s dinner in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Filet mignon
(b) Leg of lamb
(c) Onion soup
(d) Mutton

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?
(a) Fair gentleman
(b) Coxcomb
(c) Foolish knave
(d) Half lunatic

3. Whom does Lucentio tell that he has killed a man and is taking on a disguise to protect himself in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Biondello
(b) Curtis
(c) Hortensio
(d) Grumio

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.”
(a) Interrogation
(b) Aside
(c) Soliloquy
(d) Subtext

5. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Gabriel’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Walter’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Christopher Sly claims that the Slys are no rogues and that they came in with whom in Scene I of the Induction?

2. Where does Christopher Sly claim to hail from in Scene II of the Induction?

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

4. What word from Act III, Scene I refers to the whole series of recognized musical notes?

5. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?

(see the answer key)

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