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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Subtext
(b) Interrogation
(c) Aside
(d) Soliloquy

2. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?
(a) Grumio
(b) Gremio
(c) Hortensio
(d) Lucentio

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

4. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?
(a) I warrant nothing
(b) I know you not
(c) I trust you not
(d) I love you

5. 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) Candle-cases
(d) Shop stools

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

7. What word from Act III, Scene I refers to the whole series of recognized musical notes?
(a) Indication
(b) Extrapolation
(c) Gamut
(d) Allure

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

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

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

11. 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) Exalt
(b) Gape
(c) Echo
(d) Worry

12. The Pedant claims to have bills for money by exchange from where in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Paris
(b) Florence
(c) Burtonheath
(d) London

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What city does the Pedant say is “renowned for grave citizens” in Act IV, Scene II?

2. After Petruchio and Katharina exit in Act III, Scene II, Baptista says, “Nay, let them go, a couple of” what?

3. What does Grumio say “have eaten the horses” in Act III, Scene II?

4. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?

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

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