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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 city does the Pedant say is “renowned for grave citizens” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Messaline
(b) Pisa
(c) Lombardy
(d) Padua

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

3. 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 knave
(b) A hundred
(c) A million
(d) A thousand

4. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?
(a) I trust you not
(b) I warrant nothing
(c) I love you
(d) I know you not

5. Upon entering in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio remarks of Katharina, “To me she's married, not unto my” what?
(a) Estate
(b) Clothes
(c) Finery
(d) Money

Short Answer Questions

1. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?

2. What does Baptista claim have ears in Act IV, Scene IV?

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

4. What does the Haberdasher bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?

5. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Haberdasher and Tailor arrive at Petruchio’s house in Act IV, Scene III?

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

3. How does Petruchio treat Katharina differently than the other characters in the play?

4. What schemes do Tranio and Lucentio reveal in Act III, Scene II?

5. How is the theme of appearance and reality illustrated in Act III?

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

7. What does Gremio reveal of the wedding in Act III, Scene II?

8. Whom do Petruchio and Katharina encounter along their travels in Act IV, Scene V?

9. How does Petruchio appear when he arrives at the wedding in Act III, Scene II? Why?

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

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