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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the Pedant claim to be from in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Mantua
(b) Messaline
(c) Venice
(d) Lombardy

3. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Walter’s
(d) Gabriel’s

4. 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) Interrogation
(b) Soliloquy
(c) Aside
(d) Subtext

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

6. What does the Haberdasher bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A hat
(b) A purse
(c) Shoes
(d) Gloves

7. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?
(a) Nathaniel’s
(b) Walter’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Gabriel’s

8. Whom does Baptista tell to take the bridegroom’s place at the dinner table at the end of Act III?
(a) Lucentio
(b) Grumio
(c) Gremio
(d) Hortensio

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

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

11. What is the name of Petruchio’s spaniel he asks for in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Bartholomew
(b) Romeo
(c) Mercutio
(d) Troilus

12. According to Curtis in Act IV, Scene I, Petruchio lectures Katharina on what in their bridal chamber?
(a) Continency
(b) Her education
(c) Politics
(d) Her father

13. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?
(a) I love you
(b) I know you not
(c) I warrant nothing
(d) I trust you not

14. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?
(a) A knave
(b) A hundred
(c) A million
(d) A thousand

15. Katharina says in Act IV, Scene III, “The more my wrong, the more his spite appears: / What, did he marry me to” what?
(a) Adore me
(b) Curry favor with me
(c) Abandon me
(d) Famish me

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a movable article of personal property?

2. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?

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

4. Petruchio tells the wedding guests in Act III, Scene II, “Be mad and merry, or go” what?

5. Hortensio claims that he will marry a wealthy widow before how many days pass in Act IV, Scene II?

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