Taming Of The Shrew Final

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

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. 

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

He pretends to be Lucentio and woo Bianca

• Baptista

• Tranio

• Hortensio

• Gremio

He wants both of his daughters to get married

• Baptista

• Vincentio

• Lucentio

• Hortensio

He is the only one who really loves Kate

• Baptista

• Tranio

• Biondello

• Petruchio