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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 tells the wedding guests in Act III, Scene II, “Be mad and merry, or go” what?
(a) Drink from the fountain
(b) Dance and sing
(c) Hang yourselves
(d) Caterwaul in the woods

2. 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) Clamor
(b) Kindness
(c) Chivalry
(d) Chantry

3. What does Katharina say a woman may be made “if she had not a spirit to resist” in Act III, Scene II?
(a) A child
(b) A monster
(c) A fool
(d) A wife

4. A Servant enters and bids Bianca to help dress what room in the end of Act III, Scene I?
(a) Baptista’s office
(b) The kitchen
(c) Katharina’s bedchamber
(d) Lucentio’s drawing room

5. After Petruchio and Katharina exit in Act III, Scene II, Baptista says, “Nay, let them go, a couple of” what?
(a) Mad ones
(b) Quarrelsome souls
(c) Quiet ones
(d) Dainty souls

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon entering in Act III, Scene II, Petruchio remarks of Katharina, “To me she's married, not unto my” what?

2. 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?

3. What term from Act III, Scene II refers to a close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, as worn in the 16th and 17th centuries?

4. Katharina tells Petruchio in Act III, Scene II, “You may be jogging whiles your boots are” what?

5. Grumio tells Petruchio in Act IV, Scene I that there “was no link to color” whose hat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Petruchio and Katharina’s retirement to the bedchamber described in Act IV, Scene I?

2. How is the character of Grumio characterized in the play? What is Grumio’s relationship to language?

3. How is the theme of appearance and reality illustrated in Act III?

4. How does Petruchio appear when he arrives at the wedding in Act III, Scene II? Why?

5. What schemes do Tranio and Lucentio reveal in Act III, Scene II?

6. Whom do Petruchio and Katharina encounter along their travels in Act IV, Scene V?

7. What conversation takes place between Tranio, Lucentio, and Bianca in Act IV, Scene II?

8. How does Tranio convince the Pedant to agree to his disguise in Act IV, Scene IV?

9. How would you characterize the Pedant in Act IV?

10. What does Gremio reveal of the wedding in Act III, Scene II?

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