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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting for Act II?
(a) Before Lucentia’s house
(b) Petruchio’s country house
(c) A bedchamber in the Lord's house
(d) A room in Baptista’s house

2. When Hortensio reenters in Act II, Scene I, what is described about his body as being “broke”?
(a) His leg
(b) His wrist
(c) His head
(d) His arm

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

4. Act I, Scene I of The Taming of the Shrew is set in a public place in what city?
(a) Verona
(b) Padua
(c) Lombardy
(d) Venice

5. What is the name of Baptista’s eldest daughter in the play?
(a) Juliet
(b) Bianca
(c) Katharina
(d) Maria

6. What is Katharina’s response when Petruchio asks her in Act II, Scene I, “Why, what’s a moveable?”
(a) Art thou not
(b) Thy father
(c) A join’d-stool
(d) You are, sir

7. What does Katharina claim “are made to bear, and so are you” in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Asses
(b) Horses
(c) Coxcombs
(d) Stools

8. To whom is Lucentio speaking in the opening of Act I, Scene I?
(a) Orsino
(b) The Hostess
(c) Baptista
(d) Tranio

9. What wife of Socrates does Petruchio mention in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Aegina
(b) Laertia
(c) Charmidia
(d) Xanthippe

10. What is Baptista’s last name in the play?
(a) Lucretius
(b) Antola
(c) Minalta
(d) Minola

11. What does Petruchio’s line “Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato” translate to in English?
(a) With great joy do I wed thee
(b) With all my heart, I’m glad to see you
(c) With great regret, I inform you he is not home
(d) With sorrow, I must ask you to leave

12. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say she be mute and will not speak a word; / Then I'll commend her” what?
(a) Modesty
(b) Silence
(c) Beauty
(d) Volubility

13. When discussing Katharina’s dowry in Act II, Scene I, Baptista states that he who weds his daughter will receive upon his death half of all his land and how many crowns?
(a) 100,000
(b) 10,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 50,000

14. For how many years do the Servants tell Christopher Sly he has been living in a dream in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) 5
(b) 15
(c) 20
(d) 12

15. The Lord claims he would not lose his hunting hound for how much money in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) 20 pounds
(b) Sixpence
(c) 50 pounds
(d) 100 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. Petruchio claims his father was known throughout which country in Act II, Scene I?

2. The Lord orders his page to disguise himself as what in the play’s Induction?

3. Tranio (in disguise) claims to be from where in Act II, Scene I?

4. From where is Lucentio traveling in Act I, Scene I?

5. Petruchio states of Katharina in Act II, Scene I, “If she be curst, it is for policy, / For she's not froward, but modest as” what?

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