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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) Compensate
(b) Incriminate
(c) Carouse
(d) Discriminate

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

3. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?
(a) Chantry
(b) Fustian
(c) Flax
(d) Nylon

4. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Peter’s
(b) Walter’s
(c) Gabriel’s
(d) Nathaniel’s

5. 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 wild herself, she’s wildly mated
(c) That, being despis’d herself, she’s verily mated
(d) That, being mad herself, she's madly mated

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

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

8. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?
(a) Katharina’s bedchamber
(b) Lucentio’s drawing room
(c) Baptista’s office
(d) The kitchen

9. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?
(a) Choler
(b) Chantry
(c) Hyperbolical
(d) Loutish

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

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) Grumio
(b) Baptista
(c) Gremio
(d) Cambio

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene II?

2. Upon entering in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio remarks of Katharina, “To me she's married, not unto my” what?

3. 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?

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

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

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