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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what name does Gremio introduce Lucentio (in disguise) in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Hortensio
(b) Cambio
(c) Petruchio
(d) Litio

3. What is Katharina’s response to Petruchio’s line, “Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour”?
(a) Dost thou find me sour? I’ll quench thy thirst
(b) Call me Katharina, fool, or thine eyes will shine
(c) Sour as to lemons, wouldst thou have some
(d) It is my fashion, when I see a crab

4. What word from Act II, Scene I means leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal?
(a) Peremptory
(b) Cautionary
(c) Incendiary
(d) Obstinate

5. What word from Scene I of the Induction refers to a service room in which barrels or bottles of alcoholic drink were stored?
(a) Accoutrement
(b) Buttery
(c) Attic
(d) Incendiary

Short Answer Questions

1. Petruchio arrives to visit whom in Act I, Scene II?

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

3. What does Katharina claim “are made to bear, and so are you” in Act II, Scene I?

4. Petruchio claims to be a gentleman from where when he introduces himself in Act II, Scene I?

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

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