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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The following lines of Hortensio’s in Act III, Scene I are an example of what literary technique? “How fiery and forward our Pedant is! / Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love: / Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.”
(a) Subtext
(b) Soliloquy
(c) Interrogation
(d) Aside

2. The Pedant tells Baptista that he has come to Padua for what reason in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) To gather some debts
(b) To attend his son’s marriage
(c) To visit his grandmother
(d) To attend his daughter’s marriage

3. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?
(a) Incriminate
(b) Dispose
(c) Domineer
(d) Arraign

4. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Gabriel’s
(c) Walter’s
(d) Peter’s

5. Who does Tranio claim is the master of “the taming-school” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Petruchio
(b) Baptista
(c) Hortensio
(d) Lucentio

6. What city does the Pedant say is “renowned for grave citizens” in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Padua
(b) Lombardy
(c) Pisa
(d) Messaline

7. What does Baptista claim have ears in Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Walls
(b) Insects
(c) Pitchers
(d) Trees

8. What does the Tailor bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A blouse
(b) A coat
(c) A robe
(d) A dress

9. In one of Petruchio’s famous lines in Act IV, Scene I, he states, “This is a way to kill a wife with” what?
(a) Kindness
(b) Chivalry
(c) Clamor
(d) Chantry

10. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a rich sweet wine made from muscat grapes?
(a) Muscatine
(b) Musciola
(c) Muscine
(d) Muscadel

11. Biondello tells Baptista that Petruchio is wearing an old rusty sword taken from where in Act III, Scene II?
(a) The police station
(b) Baptista’s armory
(c) His father
(d) The town-armory

12. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Undercooked
(b) Burned
(c) Rotten
(d) Too cold

13. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Pedant
(c) Fool
(d) Dandy

14. What does Curtis call Grumio in Act IV Scene I?
(a) Pox on humanity
(b) Three-inch fool
(c) Toad-liver’d lout
(d) Valorous rogue

15. Hortensio claims that he will marry a wealthy widow before how many days pass in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 3
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?

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

3. What cousin does Petruchio tell the Servants to bring to the dinner table in Act IV, Scene I?

4. What is brought in by the Servants for Petruchio and Katharina’s dinner in Act IV, Scene I?

5. Katharina says in Act IV, Scene III, “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: / What, did he marry me to” what?

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