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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Bianca’s line from Act III, Scene I, “hic est Sigeia tellus,” translate to in English?
(a) I trust you not
(b) I know you not
(c) I warrant nothing
(d) I love you
2. What does the Tailor bring in for Petruchio to view in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A coat
(b) A blouse
(c) A dress
(d) A robe
3. What cousin does Petruchio tell the Servants to bring to the dinner table in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Litio
(b) Alexander
(c) Troilus
(d) Ferdinand
4. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?
(a) Lucentio’s drawing room
(b) The kitchen
(c) Baptista’s office
(d) Katharina’s bedchamber
5. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Walter’s
(b) Nathaniel’s
(c) Peter’s
(d) Gabriel’s
6. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?
(a) Gabriel’s
(b) Peter’s
(c) Nathaniel’s
(d) Walter’s
7. What word from Act III, Scene II refers to a movable article of personal property?
(a) Pox
(b) Aside
(c) Folly
(d) Chattel
8. Biondello claims that a Pedant or what is coming down the hill in Act IV, Scene II?
(a) Mercatante
(b) Black knight
(c) Lord Duncan
(d) Priest
9. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene III?
(a) A room in Petruchio’s house
(b) Lucentio’s house
(c) A room in Baptista’s house
(d) Before Baptista’s house
10. 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) Aside
(b) Interrogation
(c) Soliloquy
(d) Subtext
11. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?
(a) Chantry
(b) Flax
(c) Nylon
(d) Fustian
12. Hortensio calls Lucentio a wrangling what in Act III, Scene I?
(a) Coxcomb
(b) Pedant
(c) Fool
(d) Dandy
13. Gremio says of Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “he took the bride about the neck / And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack / That at the parting all the church did” what?
(a) Gape
(b) Exalt
(c) Echo
(d) Worry
14. Who exits with Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II?
(a) Baptista
(b) Gremio
(c) Lucentio
(d) Grumio
15. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?
(a) Presume not
(b) Love not
(c) Adore
(d) I care not
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”
2. Whose coat does Grumio tell Petruchio was not fully made in Act IV, Scene I?
3. Who says of Petruchio and Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Of all mad matches never was the like”?
4. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?
5. Petruchio tells Katharina in Act III, Scene II, “Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate: / I'll buckler thee against” what?
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