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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Petruchio’s recently deceased father in the play?
(a) Lord Oberly
(b) Baptista
(c) Antonio
(d) Orsino

2. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Burned
(b) Undercooked
(c) Rotten
(d) Too cold

3. Katharina states in Act III, Scene II, “I must, forsooth, be forced / To give my hand opposed against my heart / Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of” what?
(a) Liver
(b) Contrariness
(c) Spite
(d) Spleen

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

5. 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) Gremio
(c) Bianca
(d) Baptista

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Lucentio tell that he has killed a man and is taking on a disguise to protect himself in Act I, Scene I?

2. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to a close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, as worn in the 16th and 17th centuries?

3. Who speaks the following lines in Act V, Scene II: “At last, though long, our jarring notes agree: / And time it is, when raging war is done, / To smile at scapes and perils overblown”?

4. What does the Haberdasher bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?

5. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?

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