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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wealthy suitor to Bianca says of Katharina in Act I, Scene I, “To cart her rather: she's too rough for me”?
(a) Baptista
(b) Grumio
(c) Gremio
(d) Tranio

2. 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) Silence
(b) Beauty
(c) Volubility
(d) Modesty

3. Tranio (in disguise) claims to come and make himself suitor to whom in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Katharina
(b) Biondella
(c) Bianca
(d) Maria

4. What word from the stage directions in Scene II of the Induction refers to instruments or accessories?
(a) Carry-alongs
(b) Appurtenances
(c) Ordinances
(d) Predestinations

5. The Lord’s page tells Christopher Sly that the play he is about to watch is a kind of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) History
(b) Morality play
(c) Tragedy
(d) Comedy

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

7. Who is the “the fat ale-wife of Wincot” that Christopher Sly mentions in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Bianca
(b) Katharina
(c) Madonna
(d) Marian Hacket

8. Christopher Sly claims that the Slys are no rogues and that they came in with whom in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) The Vikings
(b) Zeus
(c) Hannibal
(d) Richard Conqueror

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

10. 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?
(a) The dove
(b) The rose
(c) The sea
(d) The stream

11. When Baptista asks Hortensio if his daughter will prove a good musician in Act II, Scene I, Hortensio replies that “she’ll sooner prove” what?
(a) A gentleman
(b) A soldier
(c) A rogue
(d) A nun

12. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?
(a) A room in Petruchio’s house
(b) Before Baptista’s house
(c) Before an alehouse
(d) Before Hortensio’s house

13. What is the name of the Lord’s page in the Induction?
(a) Bartholomew
(b) Gremio
(c) Tranio
(d) Curtis

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

15. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?
(a) Cautionary
(b) Obstinate
(c) Incendiary
(d) Peremptory

Short Answer Questions

1. What Elizabethan interjection does Gremio exclaim in Act II, Scene I?

2. Where does Christopher Sly claim to hail from in Scene II of the Induction?

3. What instrument do the Players sound in Scene I of the Induction?

4. By what name does Gremio introduce Lucentio (in disguise) in Act II, Scene I?

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

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