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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose “dagger was not come from sheathing” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Walter’s
(d) Gabriel’s

2. With which servant does Petruchio enter in Act I, Scene II?
(a) Grumio
(b) Tranio
(c) Gremio
(d) Litio

3. Whom does Tranio say “slipp'd me like his greyhound” in Act V, Scene II?
(a) Biondello
(b) Baptista
(c) Lucentio
(d) Hortensio

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

5. Katharina solicits the other wives to place their hands below what in Act V, Scene II?
(a) Their husbands’ chins
(b) Their husbands’ feet
(c) Their heads
(d) Their waists

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Christopher Sly claim to hail from in Scene II of the Induction?

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

3. What did Petruchio throw “all in the sexton’s face” at the wedding, according to Gremio in Act III, Scene II?

4. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?

5. What word from Act V, Scene II means showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve?

(see the answer key)

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