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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Baptista claim have ears in Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Pitchers
(b) Insects
(c) Walls
(d) Trees

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does the Tailor bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A dress
(b) A coat
(c) A robe
(d) A blouse

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?”

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

3. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?

4. What is the setting for Act III, Scene II?

5. 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?

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