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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Elizabethan interjection does Gremio exclaim in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Sirrah
(b) Ho
(c) Alas
(d) Baccare

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

3. Christopher Sly claims to have “no more doublets than” what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) Dogs
(b) Coins
(c) Backs
(d) Lechery

4. Act I, Scene II takes place before whose house?
(a) Hortensio’s
(b) Baptista’s
(c) Lucentio’s
(d) Biondello’s

5. What instrument do the Players sound in Scene I of the Induction?
(a) A trumpet
(b) A piano
(c) A lute
(d) A snare drum

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting for Act II?

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

3. How many “vile terms” does Hortensio say Katharina called him in Act II, Scene I?

4. Petruchio claims his father was known throughout which country in Act II, Scene I?

5. Who is the “the fat ale-wife of Wincot” that Christopher Sly mentions in Scene II of the Induction?

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