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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what name does Gremio introduce Lucentio (in disguise) in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Hortensio
(b) Cambio
(c) Litio
(d) Petruchio

3. From where is Lucentio traveling in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Pisa
(b) Paris
(c) Venice
(d) Mantua

4. With which servant does Petruchio enter in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Gremio
(b) Tranio
(c) Grumio
(d) Litio

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

6. By what name does Petruchio introduce Hortensio (in disguise) in Act II?
(a) Bartholomew
(b) Tranio
(c) Licio
(d) Grumio

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

8. 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) Grumio
(b) Curtis
(c) Biondello
(d) Hortensio

9. Where does Petruchio tell Katharina he will go to buy attire for their wedding day in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Venice
(b) Verona
(c) Mantua
(d) Paris

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

11. What word does Katharina use in Act II, Scene I meaning a conceited, foolish dandy?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Artisan
(c) Harlequin
(d) Charlatan

12. What is Katharina’s response to Petruchio’s line, “Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour”?
(a) Call me Katharina, fool, or thine eyes will shine
(b) Dost thou find me sour? I’ll quench thy thirst
(c) Sour as to lemons, wouldst thou have some
(d) It is my fashion, when I see a crab

13. Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “And where two raging fires meet together, / They do consume the thing that feeds” what?
(a) Their fate
(b) Their fury
(c) Their love
(d) Their glory

14. By what saint does Petruchio swear in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Saint James
(b) Saint Michael
(c) Saint George
(d) Saint Peter

15. 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) 10,000
(b) 100,000
(c) 20,000
(d) 50,000

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Whom does “the shrew” refer to in the play?

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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