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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. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Gabriel’s
(c) Walter’s
(d) Peter’s

2. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?
(a) Loutish
(b) Chantry
(c) Hyperbolical
(d) Choler

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?
(a) The Elephant
(b) The Black Bear
(c) The Pegasus
(d) The Phoenix

4. Katharina says in Act IV, Scene III, “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: / What, did he marry me to” what?
(a) Abandon me
(b) Curry favor with me
(c) Adore me
(d) Famish me

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tranio claim is the master of “the taming-school” in Act IV, Scene II?

2. 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.”

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?

4. The Pedant claims to have bills for money by exchange from where in Act IV, Scene II?

5. What does Curtis call Grumio in Act IV Scene I?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Petruchio announce after the wedding in Act III, Scene II?

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

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

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