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

2. 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) Cambio
(b) Grumio
(c) Gremio
(d) Baptista

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?

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

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

4. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?

5. 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.”

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What do Petruchio and Katharina argue about during their travels in Act IV, Scene V?

4. Where do Petruchio and Katharina arrive in Act IV, Scene I? How is Petruchio’s behavior characterized?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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