Taming of the Shrew - Mid Reading Quiz

Who makes the following statement? 
I confide in you. I tell you, Tranio, I’m on fire, in agony. I’ll die if I can’t have this modest young girl for my wife. Advise me, Tranio—I know you can. Help me, Tranio—I know you will.

• Lucentio
• Tranio 
• Bianca
• None of the above

What must happen before Baptista will let Bianca marry?

• He needs a large dowry
• He must have the fastest horse in Padua
• He must find her a schoolmaster
• He must marry off Katharina

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

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CCSS.W.11-12.9

Who makes the following statement? 
"Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe: My books and instruments shall be my company, on them to look and practice by myself."

• Tranio
• Lucentio
• Kate
• Bianca

Why does Lucentio come to Padua?

• He is travelling the world on the wealth of his recently deceased father.
• He has come to study at the University.
• He has come to find a wife.
• Both a and C

What is Petruchio’s objective as explained in these original lines of text from Taming of the Shrew?
And therefore, if thou know One rich enough to be Petruchio’s wife, As wealth is burden of my wooing dance, Be she as foul as was Florentius' love, As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse, She moves me not, or not removes at least Affection’s edge in me, were she as rough As are the swelling Adriatic seas. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua; If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

• He is interested in marrying a beautiful girl. 
• He is interested in marrying a quiet and gentle woman.
• He is not interested in getting married at all. 
• He is interested in marrying only for wealth. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

How are Bianca and Kate related?  

• They are cousins.
•  Bianca is Kate’s daughter. 
• Kate is Bianca’s niece.
• They are sisters.

What is a “shrew,” as defined by this play and time period? 

• A burrowing creature that often ruined Italian gardens
• A chauvinistic and overbearing man 
• An ill-tempered and disobedient woman
• An old man who tries to marry a young girl

Who is the following passage describing?  
Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold.  

• The widow
• Bianca
• Katharine
• Baptista

When Lucentio says “Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl,” who is he “burning” for?  

• The widow
• Bianca
• Tranio
• Katharine

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all: So I to her and so she yields to me; For I am rough and woo not like a babe.
What does this statement suggest about the way that Petruchio views Kate?  

• He feels Katherina’s words are like an extreme gust of wind that hurt his feelings.
• He feels both he and Kate are raging fires who are well-suited.
• He feels Kate is like a raging fire of loving good will and kindness.
• He feels he is an extreme force and Katherina is too weak to be with him.