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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?
(a) Foolish knave
(b) Fair gentleman
(c) Coxcomb
(d) Half lunatic

2. Christopher Sly claims that his present occupation is that of what in Scene II of the Induction?
(a) A haberdasher
(b) A tinker
(c) A tailor
(d) An innkeeper

3. Katharina says in Act II, Scene I, “If I be waspish, best beware” what?
(a) Mine eyes
(b) My face
(c) My words
(d) My sting

4. In Act II, Scene I, what does Petruchio say “are for winds, / That shake not, though they blow perpetually”?
(a) Buildings
(b) Mountains
(c) Trees
(d) Flowers

5. Petruchio claims to be a gentleman from where when he introduces himself in Act II, Scene I?
(a) Verona
(b) Messaline
(c) Mantua
(d) Burtonheath

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hortensio disguise himself as in order to move in on Bianca in Act I, Scene II?

2. What is the name of Petruchio’s recently deceased father in the play?

3. Act I, Scene I of The Taming of the Shrew is set in a public place in what city?

4. Tranio (in disguise) claims to come and make himself suitor to whom in Act II, Scene I?

5. When Christopher Sly awakens in the Lord’s bedchamber in Scene II of the Induction, what does he request a pot of from the servants?

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