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

2. What does Katharina say a woman may be made “if she had not a spirit to resist” in Act III, Scene II?
(a) A monster
(b) A fool
(c) A wife
(d) A child

3. What does the Haberdasher bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Shoes
(b) Gloves
(c) A purse
(d) A hat

4. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Before Baptista’s house
(b) A room in Baptista’s house
(c) A room in Petruchio’s house
(d) Lucentio’s house

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

6. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to a close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, as worn in the 16th and 17th centuries?
(a) Coverlet
(b) Jerkin
(c) Doublet
(d) Boggin

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

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

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

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

11. 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?”
(a) Cambio
(b) Grumio
(c) Baptista
(d) Gremio

12. When Petruchio and company enter after the wedding in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio claims that he must leave before when?
(a) Noon
(b) Midnight
(c) Nightfall
(d) The morning

13. Who says after Petruchio and Katharina’s departure in Act III, Scene II, “Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing”?
(a) Gremio
(b) Grumio
(c) Bianca
(d) Baptista

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

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

Short Answer 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.”

2. What does the Tailor bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?

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

4. According to Curtis in Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio lectures Katharina on what in their bridal chamber?

5. Where does the Pedant claim to be from in Act IV, Scene II?

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