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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Petruchio uses what adjective meaning “pretty” to describe his bride in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Vexing
(b) Lithe
(c) Bonny
(d) Loutish

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

3. What kind of bracelets does Petruchio describe in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Silver
(b) Diamond
(c) Golden
(d) Amber

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What word does Petruchio speak in Act III, Scene II meaning to engage in drunken revel?
(a) Discriminate
(b) Compensate
(c) Carouse
(d) Incriminate

11. What cousin does Petruchio tell the Servants to bring to the dinner table in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Alexander
(b) Ferdinand
(c) Troilus
(d) Litio

12. Katharina claims she is giddy for lack of what in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Water
(b) Love
(c) Talk
(d) Sleep

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

14. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Gabriel’s
(b) Nathaniel’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Walter’s

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Pedant claims to have bills for money by exchange from where in Act IV, Scene II?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?”

5. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes?

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