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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Petruchio complains that the meat for dinner is what in Act IV, Scene I?
(a) Rotten
(b) Too cold
(c) Burned
(d) Undercooked
2. What is the setting for Act III, Scene II?
(a) Before Baptista’s house
(b) Lucentio’s house
(c) A street in Padua
(d) Petruchio’s country house
3. What is the setting for Act IV, Scene IV?
(a) Hortensio’s house
(b) Before an alehouse
(c) Before Baptista’s house
(d) A room in Lucentio’s house
4. What is the setting for Act III, Scene I?
(a) Baptista’s house
(b) Before Lucentio’s house
(c) Before Hortensio’s house
(d) Before an alehouse
5. What kind of bracelets does Petruchio describe in Act IV, Scene III?
(a) Golden
(b) Amber
(c) Diamond
(d) Silver
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Petruchio claim “now is sharp and passing empty” in Act IV, Scene I?
2. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to an ecclesiastic representing the pope or a bishop?
3. Who does Lucentio say AEacides was in Act III, Scene I?
4. Biondello claims that a Pedant or what is coming down the hill in Act IV, Scene II?
5. What word from Act III, Scene II means to rule arbitrarily or despotically?
Short Essay Questions
1. What disagreement takes place about the time of day in Act IV, Scene III?
2. What do Petruchio and Katharina argue about during their travels in Act IV, Scene V?
3. Where do Petruchio and Katharina arrive in Act IV, Scene I? How is Petruchio’s behavior characterized?
4. How does Baptista respond to Petruchio’s appearance in Act III, Scene II? Why?
5. How is the character of Grumio characterized in the play? What is Grumio’s relationship to language?
6. What does Gremio reveal of the wedding in Act III, Scene II?
7. How is Petruchio and Katharina’s retirement to the bedchamber described in Act IV, Scene I?
8. Why is Bianca sought after by so many suitors in the play? How does Bianca’s characterization relate to Katharina’s?
9. What does Petruchio announce after the wedding in Act III, Scene II?
10. How would you characterize the Pedant in Act IV?
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