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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Too cold
(b) Rotten
(c) Burned
(d) Undercooked

3. 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) Doublet
(b) Coverlet
(c) Jerkin
(d) Boggin

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

5. Who does Tranio claim is the master of “the taming-school” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Petruchio
(b) Baptista
(c) Hortensio
(d) Lucentio

6. 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 visit his grandmother
(c) To attend his daughter’s marriage
(d) To gather some debts

7. 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) Abandon me
(d) Curry favor with me

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

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

10. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”
(a) That, being mad herself, she's madly mated
(b) That, being despis’d herself, she’s verily mated
(c) That, being wild herself, she’s wildly mated
(d) That, being curs’d herself, she’s badly mated

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

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

13. Whose “dagger was not come from sheathing” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Walter’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Gabriel’s
(d) Nathaniel’s

14. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?
(a) A million
(b) A knave
(c) A thousand
(d) A hundred

15. Biondello tells Lucentio that the old priest from what church is at his command at all hours in Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Saint Paul’s Church
(b) Saint Michael’s Church
(c) Saint Luke’s Church
(d) Saint Peter’s Church

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?

2. Who speaks the following line in Act III, Scene II: “Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work”?

3. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?

4. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?

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

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