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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who speaks the following line in Act III, Scene II: “Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work”?
(a) Baptista
(b) Gremio
(c) Hortensio
(d) Grumio

2. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Before Baptista’s house
(b) Hortensio’s house
(c) Before an alehouse
(d) A room in Lucentio’s house

3. Who says after Petruchio and Katharina’s departure in Act III, Scene II, “Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing”?
(a) Bianca
(b) Gremio
(c) Baptista
(d) Grumio

4. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?
(a) Walter’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Nathaniel’s
(d) Gabriel’s

5. Katharina tells Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “You may be jogging whiles your boots are” what?
(a) Harnessed
(b) Green
(c) New
(d) Broken in

6. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Walter’s
(b) Nathaniel’s
(c) Gabriel’s
(d) Peter’s

7. Biondello tells Lucentio that the old priest from what church is at his command at all hours in Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Saint Luke’s Church
(b) Saint Michael’s Church
(c) Saint Paul’s Church
(d) Saint Peter’s Church

8. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Fool
(c) Dandy
(d) Pedant

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

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

11. The following lines of Hortensio’s in Act III, Scene I are an example of what literary technique? “How fiery and forward our Pedant is! / Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love: / Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.”
(a) Interrogation
(b) Subtext
(c) Aside
(d) Soliloquy

12. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?
(a) The kitchen
(b) Baptista’s office
(c) Katharina’s bedchamber
(d) Lucentio’s drawing room

13. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Too cold
(b) Rotten
(c) Undercooked
(d) Burned

14. Where does the Pedant claim to be from in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Venice
(b) Lombardy
(c) Mantua
(d) Messaline

15. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?
(a) Chantry
(b) Monk
(c) Vicar
(d) Coxcomb

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?

2. What is the setting of Act IV, Scene I?

3. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes?

4. What word from Act III, Scene I refers to the whole series of recognized musical notes?

5. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”

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