7 Multiple choice questions

1. Baptista speaking to Gremio & Hortensio

1. Identify the speaker:
"Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did..."
2. Identify the speaker:
"Too light for such a swain as you to catch; And yet heavy as my weight should
be..."
3. Identify the speaker:
"For in Baptista's keep my treasure is: He hath the jewel of my life in hold..."
4. Identify the speaker: "That is, not to bestow my youngest daughter Before I
have a husband for the elder..."
2. They discuss what Petruchio can offer Kate and what Baptista offers Petruchio
1. Identify the speaker:
"These I will assure her, and twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next."
2. Identify the speaker:
"Thou know'st not gold's effect..."
3. Summarize the content of Petruchio and Baptista's conversation.
4. Identify the speaker:
"I burn, I pine, I perish...If I achieve not this young modest girl."
3. Petruchio is marrying Kate, but it is allowing them to move in on Bianca
1. At the end of Act 2, what are Tranio, Gremio, and Baptista discussing? What
decision is made? What must Tranio do in light of this decision?
2. Why doesn't Kate object when the wedding date is set?
3. At the end of Act 1, why are Bianca's suitors friendly with one another and
indebted to Petruchio?
4. What does Petruchio's monologue to Hortensio reveal about him?
4. Minola
1. What is Bianca and Kate's last name?
2. Why has Lucentio come to Padua?
3. What character does Tranio assume? How does Baptista react to him?
4. What is Bianca's reputation?
5. quiet, perfect, obedient, spoiled, beautiful
1. What is Katharine's reputation?
2. What is Bianca and Kate's last name?
3. What is Bianca's reputation?
4. What is Petruchio's motive in coming to Padua?
6. He and Kate have made a bargain that she will act like her normal shrewish self in
public, but when alone with him, she will be sweet.
 1. Identify the speaker:
"Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers; Then well one more may fair
Bianca have..."
2. What does Petruchio mean in the following lines?
"'T is a bargain'd twixt us twain, being alone, That she shall still be curst in
company. I tell you, 't is incredible to believe How much she loves me..."
3. Identify the speaker:
"And I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I
may..."
4. Tranio
7. Petruchio says Kate acts like she doesn't like him to keep her reputation, but when
alone she loves and kisses on him. Baptist is pleasantly surprised
1. What does Petruchio mean in the following lines?
"'T is a bargain'd twixt us twain, being alone, That she shall still be curst in
company. I tell you, 't is incredible to believe How much she loves me..."
2. Identify the speaker:
"And I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I
may..."
3. Identify the speaker:
"Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers; Then well one more may fair
Bianca have..."
4. What does Petruchio claim about his and Katherine's interaction? How does
Baptista react?

6 True/False questions

1. Lucentio speaking to Tranio about Bianca after seeing her the first time → Identify the
speaker:
"Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did..."

True False

2. Tranio is playing Lucentio

Lucentio is playing Cambio
Hortensio is playing Litio → What role do the servants play?

True False

3. Petruchio → Bianca's suitors are

True False
4. To study at the university → How is Hortensio injured?

True False

5. Petruchio to Baptista after Baptista warns him of Kat's ill temper → Identify the speaker:
"And where two raging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their
fury..."

True False

6. Kate hit him in the head with a lute → How is Hortensio injured?

True False
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