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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose “dagger was not come from sheathing” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Gabriel’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Walter’s

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

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

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

6. Who exits with Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Baptista
(b) Lucentio
(c) Gremio
(d) Grumio

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

8. 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) Echo
(c) Gape
(d) Exalt

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

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

11. What is the name of Petruchio’s spaniel he asks for in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Bartholomew
(b) Mercutio
(c) Troilus
(d) Romeo

12. Bianca’s line “celsa senis” from Act III, Scene I translates to what in English?
(a) Despair not
(b) Please leave
(c) Presume not
(d) I love you

13. Katharina says in Act IV, Scene III, “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: / What, did he marry me to” what?
(a) Famish me
(b) Adore me
(c) Curry favor with me
(d) Abandon me

14. Katharina claims she is giddy for lack of what in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Talk
(b) Sleep
(c) Love
(d) Water

15. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing a pair of boots that have been what in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Laundry boards
(b) Tissue boxes
(c) Shop stools
(d) Candle-cases

Short Answer Questions

1. What cousin does Petruchio tell the Servants to bring to the dinner table in Act IV, Scene I?

2. Who does Tranio claim is the master of “the taming-school” in Act IV, Scene II?

3. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing an old rusty sword taken from where in Act III, Scene II?

4. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?

5. What does Katharina say a woman may be made “if she had not a spirit to resist” in Act III, Scene II?

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