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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?
(a) Love not
(b) Presume not
(c) I care not
(d) Adore

5. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing a pair of boots that have been what in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Candle-cases
(b) Shop stools
(c) Tissue boxes
(d) Laundry boards

6. Why does Grumio say his master beat him while traveling after the wedding in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Because Grumio’s horse fell
(b) Because Katharina’s horse fell
(c) Because dinner wasn’t ready
(d) Because he was late

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

8. The following lines of Hortensio’s in Act III, Scene I are an example of what literary technique? “How fiery and forward our Pedant is! / Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love: / Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.”
(a) Subtext
(b) Aside
(c) Soliloquy
(d) Interrogation

9. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing an old rusty sword taken from where in Act III, Scene II?
(a) His father
(b) The police station
(c) The town-armory
(d) Baptista’s armory

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

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

12. 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?
(a) Worry
(b) Exalt
(c) Echo
(d) Gape

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

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who exits with Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II?

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

3. 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?

4. According to Curtis in Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio lectures Katharina on what in their bridal chamber?

5. 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?

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