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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who speaks the following line at the end of Act V, Scene II: “Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew”?
(a) Baptista
(b) Hortensio
(c) Bartholomew
(d) Vincentio

2. What word does Hortensio’s wife send when she is bid to come to him in Act V, Scene II?
(a) She is ill
(b) She is cooking dinner
(c) She bids him to come to her
(d) She is on her way

3. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?
(a) A knave
(b) A hundred
(c) A thousand
(d) A million

4. In Act II, Scene I, what does Petruchio say “are for winds, / That shake not, though they blow perpetually”?
(a) Trees
(b) Mountains
(c) Flowers
(d) Buildings

5. Whom does Tranio say “slipp'd me like his greyhound” in Act V, Scene II?
(a) Baptista
(b) Biondello
(c) Lucentio
(d) Hortensio

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tranio orders the Officer to carry Vincentio where in Act V, Scene I?

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

4. Act I, Scene I of The Taming of the Shrew is set in a public place in what city?

5. Vincentio claims that Tranio is a sail maker from where in Act V, Scene I?

(see the answer key)

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