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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and Act I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Lord’s page tells Christopher Sly that the play he is about to watch is a kind of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Morality play
(b) Comedy
(c) Tragedy
(d) History

2. What word from the stage directions in Scene II of the Induction refers to instruments or accessories?
(a) Predestinations
(b) Carry-alongs
(c) Ordinances
(d) Appurtenances

3. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Biondello
(b) Gremio
(c) Baptista
(d) Hortensio

4. What wife of Socrates does Petruchio mention in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Aegina
(b) Charmidia
(c) Laertia
(d) Xanthippe

5. What is Lucentio’s destination when he stops for a brief visit in Act I, Scene I?
(a) Messaline
(b) Lombardy
(c) Mantua
(d) Burtonheath

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucentio decide to disguise himself as in order to be close to Bianca in Act I, Scene I?

2. What does Petruchio’s line “Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato” translate to in English?

3. To whom is Lucentio speaking in the opening of Act I, Scene I?

4. The Lord orders his page to disguise himself as what in the play’s Induction?

5. What hound does the First Huntsman claim “twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent” and is the better dog in Scene I of the Induction?

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