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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Chantry
(c) Vicar
(d) Monk

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

3. 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) Cambio
(c) Grumio
(d) Baptista

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of Petruchio’s spaniel he asks for in Act IV, Scene I?

3. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing an old rusty sword taken from where in Act III, Scene II?

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

5. Petruchio tells the wedding guests in Act III, Scene II, “Be mad and merry, or go” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Petruchio win his argument in Act IV, Scene V?

2. How is the character of Grumio characterized in the play? What is Grumio’s relationship to language?

3. What conversation takes place between Tranio, Lucentio, and Bianca in Act IV, Scene II?

4. Characterize the relationship between Katharina and Petruchio in the narrative. How is their relationship commonly approached in performance?

5. How does Lucentio go about revealing his identity in Act III, Scene I? How does Bianca respond?

6. How does Tranio convince the Pedant to agree to his disguise in Act IV, Scene IV?

7. How do Hortensio’s objectives change in Act IV, Scene II? Why?

8. How is Petruchio and Katharina’s retirement to the bedchamber described in Act IV, Scene I?

9. How would you characterize the Pedant in Act IV?

10. How does Baptista respond to Petruchio’s appearance in Act III, Scene II? Why?

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