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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. Whom is the Pedant disguised as in Act IV Scene IV?
(a) Hortensio
(b) Baptista
(c) Lucentio
(d) Vincentio

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

3. What is Bianca’s reply in Act III, Scene II when asked, “Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?”
(a) That, being wild herself, she’s wildly mated
(b) That, being curs’d herself, she’s badly mated
(c) That, being mad herself, she's madly mated
(d) That, being despis’d herself, she’s verily mated

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

5. What does the Latin word “regia,” used by Bianca in Act III, Scene I, translate to in English?
(a) I care not
(b) Love not
(c) Presume not
(d) Adore

Short Answer 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.”

2. What word from Act IV, Scene I refers to a stout fabric of cotton and flax?

3. Who speaks the following lines in Act IV, Scene I: “Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and / all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever / man so rayed?”

4. Katharina states in Act III, Scene II, “I must, forsooth, be forced / To give my hand opposed against my heart / Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of” what?

5. Whose pumps were all “unpink’d I’ the heel” according to Grumio in Act IV, Scene I?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Katharina respond to Petruchio’s delay at the wedding in Act III, Scene II?

3. How does Petruchio win his argument in Act IV, Scene V?

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

5. How does Petruchio describe his treatment of his bride in the end of Act IV, Scene I?

6. Where do Petruchio and Katharina arrive in Act IV, Scene I? How is Petruchio’s behavior characterized?

7. What do Petruchio and Katharina argue about during their travels in Act IV, Scene V?

8. How does Petruchio treat Katharina differently than the other characters in the play?

9. How does Baptista respond to Petruchio’s appearance in Act III, Scene II? Why?

10. Why is Bianca sought after by so many suitors in the play? How does Bianca’s characterization relate to Katharina’s?

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