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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) My raven
(b) My falcon
(c) My chantry
(d) My wolf

2. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”
(a) That, being curs’d herself, she’s badly mated
(b) That, being mad herself, she's madly mated
(c) That, being despis’d herself, she’s verily mated
(d) That, being wild herself, she’s wildly mated

3. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Walter’s
(c) Gabriel’s
(d) Peter’s

4. What is the setting of Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Lucentio’s house
(b) Before Baptista’s house
(c) A room in Baptista’s house
(d) Petruchio’s country house

5. What does Curtis call Grumio in Act IV Scene I?
(a) Pox on humanity
(b) Valorous rogue
(c) Toad-liver’d lout
(d) Three-inch fool

6. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?
(a) Domineer
(b) Dispose
(c) Arraign
(d) Incriminate

7. What word from Act III, Scene I refers to the whole series of recognized musical notes?
(a) Indication
(b) Gamut
(c) Extrapolation
(d) Allure

8. What city does the Pedant say is “renowned for grave citizens” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Pisa
(b) Padua
(c) Lombardy
(d) Messaline

9. Gremio says of Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “he took the bride about the neck / And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack / That at the parting all the church did” what?
(a) Worry
(b) Gape
(c) Echo
(d) Exalt

10. 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) Gremio
(b) Cambio
(c) Grumio
(d) Baptista

11. After Petruchio and Katharina exit in Act III, Scene II, Baptista says, “Nay, let them go, a couple of” what?
(a) Dainty souls
(b) Mad ones
(c) Quiet ones
(d) Quarrelsome souls

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

13. Petruchio uses what adjective meaning “pretty” to describe his bride in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Lithe
(b) Vexing
(c) Bonny
(d) Loutish

14. What is brought in by the Servants for Petruchio and Katharina’s dinner in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Leg of lamb
(b) Mutton
(c) Filet mignon
(d) Onion soup

15. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a movable article of personal property?
(a) Chattel
(b) Folly
(c) Aside
(d) Pox

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene III?

2. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?

3. Biondello claims that a Pedant or what is coming down the hill in Act IV, Scene II?

4. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?

5. Biondello tells Lucentio that the old priest from what church is at his command at all hours in Act IV, Scene IV?

(see the answer keys)

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