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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say she be mute and will not speak a word; / Then I'll commend her” what?
(a) Silence
(b) Beauty
(c) Volubility
(d) Modesty

2. Who says after Petruchio and Katharina’s departure in Act III, Scene II, “Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing”?
(a) Grumio
(b) Bianca
(c) Baptista
(d) Gremio

3. What is the name of Baptista’s youngest daughter in the play?
(a) Maria
(b) Viola
(c) Bianca
(d) Katharina

4. Speaking of Katharina, Hortensio says in Act II, Scene I, “Iron may hold with her, but never” what?
(a) Lutes
(b) Violins
(c) Written words
(d) Piano keys

5. Christopher Sly claims that his present occupation is that of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) An innkeeper
(b) A haberdasher
(c) A tinker
(d) A tailor

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Scene I of the Induction refers to a service room in which barrels or bottles of alcoholic drink were stored?

2. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?

3. Biondello tells Lucentio that the old priest from what church is at his command at all hours in Act IV, Scene IV?

4. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?

5. Whose “dagger was not come from sheathing” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?

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