Shrew

Question 1

Who becomes Biancas music teacher?

Answer 1

Hortensio

Question 2

Which character is Petruchios servant?

Answer 2

Grumio

Question 3

How does Lucentio declare his love for Bianca?

Answer 3

Through his latin lesson

Question 4

Where is most of the play set?

Answer 4

Padua

Question 5

Whom does Baptista believe to be Lucentio for most of the play?

Answer 5

Tranio

Question 6

How does Petruchio prevent Kate from eating after their wedding?

Answer 6

He says that the food is not good enough for her

Question 7

What does Petruchio convince Kate to say about the sun?

Answer 7

That it is the moon

Question 8

Which character is late for Petruchio and Kate’s wedding?

Answer 8

Petruchio

Question 9

What is Christopher Sly’s profession?

Answer 9

Tinker

Question 10

Who is Biancas father?

Answer 10

Baptista

Question 11

Who tricks Sly?

Answer 11

A lord

Question 12

Who pretends to be Lucentios father?

Answer 12

The pedant

Question 13

Who convinces Bianca and Lucentio to elope?

Answer 13

Biondello

Question 14

Whose wife is first to answer to the summon at the end of the play?

Answer 14

Petruchio’s

Question 15

How does Tranio trick the pedant?

Answer 15

He tells him Padua and Mantua are at war

Question 16

Who becomes Bianca’s latin teacher?

Answer 16

Lucentio

Question 17

How does Petruchio set his wedding date?

Answer 17

He falsely claims that Kate has agreed to marry him on Sunday

Question 18

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

Answer 18

An ill-tempered and disobedient woman

Question 19

Why does Petruchio agree to marry Kate?

Answer 19

He wants her father’s money

Question 20

What object of the haberdasher does Kate covet?

Answer 20

A hat

Question 21

Does Petruchio give Kate the object she covets?

Answer 21

No

Question 22

Whom do Petruchio and Kate meet on the road back to Padua?

Answer 22

Vincentio

Question 23

Whom does Hortensio marry?

Answer 23

A wealthy widow

Question 24

Where do Petruchio and Kate go at the end of the play?

Answer 24

To bed

Question 25

How are Bianca and Kate related?

Answer 25

They are sisters

Question 26

What is Lucentio’s hometown?

Answer 26

Pisa?

Question 27

Who does Hortensio disguise himself as?

Answer 27

Litio

Question 28

Who does the Pedant disguise himself as?

Answer 28

Vincentio

Question 29

What is the name of Petruchio’s father?

Answer 29

Antonio

Question 30

What does Lucentio call the city in which he arrives?

Answer 30

“Nusery of Arts”

Question 31

What does “Cambio” mean?

Answer 31

Change

Question 32

Where does Petruchio come from?

Answer 32

Verona