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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?
(a) Flax
(b) Nylon
(c) Chantry
(d) Fustian

2. Bianca’s line “celsa senis” from Act III, Scene I translates to what in English?
(a) Despair not
(b) Presume not
(c) Please leave
(d) I love you

3. Petruchio tells the wedding guests in Act III, Scene II, “Be mad and merry, or go” what?
(a) Dance and sing
(b) Hang yourselves
(c) Drink from the fountain
(d) Caterwaul in the woods

4. What is the setting for Act III, Scene I?
(a) Before an alehouse
(b) Baptista’s house
(c) Before Lucentio’s house
(d) Before Hortensio’s house

5. Where does Baptista invite his guests to take a walk before dinner in Act II, Scene I?
(a) To Katharina’s room
(b) Through the orchard
(c) Through the city
(d) To the church

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks the following lines in Act IV, Scene I: “Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and / all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever / man so rayed?”

2. Katharina tells her father in Act II, Scene I, “You have show'd a tender fatherly regard, / To wish me wed to one” what?

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

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

5. Tranio (in disguise) claims to be from where in Act II, Scene I?

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