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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Curtis in Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio lectures Katharina on what in their bridal chamber?
(a) Continency
(b) Politics
(c) Her education
(d) Her father

3. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?
(a) Clamor
(b) Chantry
(c) Kindness
(d) Chivalry

4. The Pedant worries in Act IV, Scene IV that Baptista will recognize him because twenty years ago they were lodgers at what establishment in Genoa?
(a) The Black Bear
(b) The Pegasus
(c) The Elephant
(d) The Phoenix

5. What cousin does Petruchio tell the Servants to bring to the dinner table in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Alexander
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Litio
(d) Troilus

6. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?
(a) Bianca
(b) Hortensio
(c) Baptista
(d) Tranio

7. What is the setting for Act III, Scene I?
(a) Before an alehouse
(b) Before Lucentio’s house
(c) Baptista’s house
(d) Before Hortensio’s house

8. Hortensio claims that he will marry a wealthy widow before how many days pass in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) 3
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 5

9. What word does Petruchio speak in Act III, Scene II meaning to engage in drunken revel?
(a) Carouse
(b) Compensate
(c) Incriminate
(d) Discriminate

10. The Pedant tells Baptista that he has come to Padua for what reason in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) To visit his grandmother
(b) To gather some debts
(c) To attend his daughter’s marriage
(d) To attend his son’s marriage

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) Soliloquy
(c) Aside
(d) Subtext

12. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?
(a) I care not
(b) Presume not
(c) Love not
(d) Adore

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

14. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?
(a) Chantry
(b) Loutish
(c) Hyperbolical
(d) Choler

15. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?
(a) A thousand
(b) A hundred
(c) A knave
(d) A million

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Grumio say his master beat him while traveling after the wedding in Act IV, Scene I?

3. What does Baptista claim have ears in Act IV, Scene IV?

4. Petruchio uses what adjective meaning “pretty” to describe his bride in Act III, Scene II?

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

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