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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?
(a) Gabriel’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Nathaniel’s
(d) Walter’s

2. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) My falcon
(b) My raven
(c) My wolf
(d) My chantry

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

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

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

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

7. After Petruchio and Katharina exit in Act III, Scene II, Baptista says, “Nay, let them go, a couple of” what?
(a) Quarrelsome souls
(b) Quiet ones
(c) Mad ones
(d) Dainty souls

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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?
(a) The Elephant
(b) The Pegasus
(c) The Black Bear
(d) The Phoenix

14. 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) Bianca
(c) Baptista
(d) Grumio

15. What is the setting for Act III, Scene II?
(a) Lucentio’s house
(b) Petruchio’s country house
(c) A street in Padua
(d) Before Baptista’s house

Short Answer Questions

1. Biondello tells Lucentio that the old priest from what church is at his command at all hours in Act IV, Scene IV?

2. Katharina says in Act IV, Scene III, “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: / What, did he marry me to” what?

3. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?

4. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”

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

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