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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Hostess demand that Christopher Sly pay for after having broken them in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) Door frames
(b) Wine bottles
(c) Windows
(d) Glasses

2. What does the Haberdasher bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A hat
(b) A purse
(c) Gloves
(d) Shoes

3. The Widow tells Katharina in Act V, Scene II, “Your husband, being troubled with a shrew, / Measures my husband's sorrow by” what?
(a) His woe
(b) His shoe
(c) His horse
(d) You

4. Who speaks the following lines in Act IV, Scene I: “Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and / all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever / man so rayed?”
(a) Cambio
(b) Grumio
(c) Gremio
(d) Baptista

5. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?
(a) A gentlewoman
(b) A schoolmaster
(c) A musician
(d) A priest

Short Answer 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”?

2. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?

3. Christopher Sly claims that the Slys are no rogues and that they came in with whom in Scene I of the Induction?

4. Who exits with Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II?

5. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?

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