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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Katharina states in Act III, Scene II, “I must, forsooth, be forced / To give my hand opposed against my heart / Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of” what?
(a) Contrariness
(b) Liver
(c) Spite
(d) Spleen

3. 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

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

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

6. 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

7. What does Grumio say “have eaten the horses” in Act III, Scene II?
(a) The mulberry
(b) The oats
(c) Thine goats
(d) The masters

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

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

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

11. What did Petruchio throw “all in the sexton’s face” at the wedding, according to Gremio in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Ale
(b) Wine
(c) Butter
(d) Sops

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

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

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

15. Who does Lucentio say AEacides was in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Jupiter
(b) Athena
(c) Ajax
(d) Ares

Short Answer Questions

1. The Pedant worries in Act IV, Scene IV that Baptista will recognize him because twenty years ago they were lodgers at what establishment in Genoa?

2. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?

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

4. Katharina tells Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “You may be jogging whiles your boots are” what?

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

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