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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Baptista’s eldest daughter in the play?
(a) Juliet
(b) Bianca
(c) Maria
(d) Katharina
2. What is the name of Petruchio’s recently deceased father in the play?
(a) Baptista
(b) Orsino
(c) Antonio
(d) Lord Oberly
3. Christopher Sly claims that the Slys are no rogues and that they came in with whom in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) Zeus
(b) Richard Conqueror
(c) Hannibal
(d) The Vikings
4. By what name does Petruchio introduce Hortensio (in disguise) in Act II?
(a) Tranio
(b) Licio
(c) Grumio
(d) Bartholomew
5. What does Katharina claim “are made to bear, and so are you” in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Asses
(b) Coxcombs
(c) Stools
(d) Horses
6. Petruchio claims his father was known throughout which country in Act II, Scene I?
(a) France
(b) England
(c) Italy
(d) Argentina
7. 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) Beauty
(b) Silence
(c) Modesty
(d) Volubility
8. Who is the “the fat ale-wife of Wincot” that Christopher Sly mentions in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Marian Hacket
(b) Katharina
(c) Madonna
(d) Bianca
9. Whom does Lucentio tell that he has killed a man and is taking on a disguise to protect himself in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Curtis
(b) Biondello
(c) Hortensio
(d) Grumio
10. Petruchio claims to be a gentleman from where when he introduces himself in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Burtonheath
(b) Messaline
(c) Mantua
(d) Verona
11. 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) Comedy
(b) Morality play
(c) History
(d) Tragedy
12. When Hortensio reenters in Act II, Scene I, what is described about his body as being “broke”?
(a) His leg
(b) His head
(c) His wrist
(d) His arm
13. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?
(a) Peremptory
(b) Cautionary
(c) Obstinate
(d) Incendiary
14. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?
(a) A schoolmaster
(b) A musician
(c) A gentlewoman
(d) A priest
15. Tranio (in disguise) claims to come and make himself suitor to whom in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Katharina
(b) Bianca
(c) Biondella
(d) Maria
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Petruchio tell Katharina he will go to buy attire for their wedding day in Act II, Scene I?
2. The setting of Scene I of the Induction takes place where?
3. In Act II, Scene I, what does Petruchio say “are for winds, / That shake not, though they blow perpetually”?
4. 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?
5. What word from Scene I of the Induction refers to a service room in which barrels or bottles of alcoholic drink were stored?
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