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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) Baptista
(b) Hortensio
(c) Lucentio
(d) Vincentio

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

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

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

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

8. 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

9. Biondello claims that a Pedant or what is coming down the hill in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Priest
(b) Lord Duncan
(c) Black knight
(d) Mercatante

10. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes?
(a) Muscine
(b) Musciola
(c) Muscatine
(d) Muscadel

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

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

13. Upon entering in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio remarks of Katharina, “To me she's married, not unto my” what?
(a) Estate
(b) Money
(c) Clothes
(d) Finery

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?

2. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?

3. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?

4. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?

5. Petruchio tells the wedding guests in Act III, Scene II, “Be mad and merry, or go” what?

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