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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) My falcon
(b) My raven
(c) My chantry
(d) My wolf

2. Speaking in soliloquy, Petruchio states in Act II, Scene I, “Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain / She sings as sweetly as” what?
(a) A canary
(b) A raven
(c) A nightingale
(d) A finch

3. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to wrath or irritability?
(a) Hyperbolical
(b) Loutish
(c) Choler
(d) Chantry

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

5. What word does Petruchio speak in Act III, Scene II meaning to engage in drunken revel?
(a) Discriminate
(b) Compensate
(c) Carouse
(d) Incriminate

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?

2. What does Grumio say “have eaten the horses” in Act III, Scene II?

3. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?

4. Who does Tranio (in disguise) claim is his father in Act II, Scene I?

5. Petruchio tells Baptista that he and Katharina will wed on which day in Act II, Scene I?

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