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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city does the Pedant say is “renowned for grave citizens” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Pisa
(b) Messaline
(c) Lombardy
(d) Padua

2. 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) Through the orchard
(d) To the church

3. Katharina solicits the other wives to place their hands below what in Act V, Scene II?
(a) Their husbands’ chins
(b) Their waists
(c) Their husbands’ feet
(d) Their heads

4. 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) Foolish knave
(b) Half lunatic
(c) Coxcomb
(d) Fair gentleman

5. Gremio claims that his cake is what in Act V, Scene I?
(a) Dough
(b) Buttery
(c) Burned
(d) Sold

Short Answer Questions

1. Katharina tells Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “You may be jogging whiles your boots are” what?

2. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?

3. Christopher Sly claims that his present occupation is that of what in Scene II of the Induction?

4. Who does Lucentio say AEacides was in Act III, Scene I?

5. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?

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