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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Petruchio uses what adjective meaning “pretty” to describe his bride in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Loutish
(b) Bonny
(c) Vexing
(d) Lithe

2. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?
(a) Gremio
(b) Lucentio
(c) Grumio
(d) Hortensio

3. What is Gremio’s response when Baptista asks him in Act V, Scene II, “How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?”
(a) Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush
(b) Would say your head and butt were head and horn
(c) Believe me, sir, they butt together well
(d) Methinks they be fair victims, Sirrah

4. Vincentio claims that Tranio is a sail maker from where in Act V, Scene I?
(a) Bergamo
(b) Messaline
(c) Venice
(d) Pisa

5. Where does Baptista invite his guests to take a walk before dinner in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Through the city
(b) To Katharina’s room
(c) To the church
(d) Through the orchard

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christopher Sly awakens in the Lord’s bedchamber in Scene II of the Induction, what does he request a pot of from the servants?

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

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

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

5. What does Katharina claim “are made to bear, and so are you” in Act II, Scene I?

(see the answer key)

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