The Taming of the Shrew

Question 1

VOCABULARY:

Austerity

Answer 1

The trait of self denial from worldly pleasures

Question 2

VOCABULARY:

Bereft

Answer 2

Sorrowful through loss or deprivation

Question 3

VOCABULARY:

Chattels

Answer 3

Any movable property

Question 4

VOCABULARY:

Jerkin

Answer 4

A short jacket

Question 5

VOCABULARY:

Credulous

Answer 5

Showing lack of judgment or experience

Question 6

VOCABULARY:

Dowry

Answer 6

Money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

Question 7

VOCABULARY:

Flout

Answer 7

To show contempt for to disobey

Question 8

VOCABULARY:

Forbear

Answer 8

To hold back

Question 9

VOCABULARY:

Gamut

Answer 9

A scale of musical notes

Question 10

VOCABULARY:

Giddy

Answer 10

Dizzy, lightheaded, or lacking seriousness

Question 11

LITERARY TERMS:

Pantaloons

Answer 11

A stock comedic character usually an old man wearing baggy pants and chasing young girls

Question 12

LITERARY TERMS:

Aside

Answer 12

Words spoken by an actor in such a way that the audience is supposed to hear him/her but not the other characters on stage

Question 13

LITERARY TERMS:

Soliloquy

Answer 13

Lines in a play in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience. This is longer than a aside and is usually done on stage alone

Question 14

LITERARY TERMS:

Couplet

Answer 14

Two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry

Question 15

LITERARY TERMS:

Pun

Answer 15

An expression that achieves humor by two words having the same meaning or two similar sounding words

Question 16

LITERARY TERMS:

Malapropism

Answer 16

The misuse of a longer word for a humorous effect

Question 17

LITERARY TERMS:

Dramatic Irony

Answer 17

irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.

Question 18

LITERARY TERMS:

Structural Irony

Answer 18

A native hero whose view of the world differs from the author’s and the readers. It flatters the reader’s intelligence at the expense of the hero

Question 19

LITERARY TERMS:

Verbal Irony

Answer 19

When what is said is not what is really meant

Question 20

LITERARY TERMS:

Stock Charcter

Answer 20

When the audience knows things that the characters in the work do not

Question 21

NAME THAT CHARACTER:

A tinker

Answer 21

Sly

Question 22

NAME THAT CHARACTER:

Wants to marry for fortune

Answer 22

Petruchio

Question 23

NAME THAT CHARACTER:

Falls in love at first sight

Answer 23

Lucentio

Question 24

NAME THAT CHARACTER:

Is seen as a Shrew by all in Padua

Answer 24

Kat

Question 25

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | The man in Padua who Petruchio knows before the play starts

Answer 25

Hortensio

Question 26

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | From Verona

Answer 26

Petruchio

Question 27

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is told that he will be punished for breaking glasses

Answer 27

Sly

Question 28

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Petruchio’s personal servant

Answer 28

Grumio

Question 29

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Marries a widow

Answer 29

Hortensio

Question 30

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Disguises himself as a music teacher, Litio

Answer 30

Hortensio

Question 31

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Ties up Bianca

Answer 31

Kat

Question 32

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is told that Lucentio killed a man

Answer 32

Biondello

Question 33

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Says the sun is the moon

Answer 33

Petruchio and Kat

Question 34

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Tells the crowd that Katharine is affectionate

Answer 34

Petruchio

Question 35

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Cusses at the wedding

Answer 35

Petruchio

Question 36

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is more of a Shrew than Kate

Answer 36

Petruchio

Question 37

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Throws meat about the kitchen

Answer 37

Petruchio

Question 38

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Dresses Sly up as a lord

Answer 38

Lord

Question 39

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Pretends to be Sky’s wife

Answer 39

Page

Question 40

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Tries to outbid Lucentio for Bianca

Answer 40

Gremio

Question 41

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is a pantaloons

Answer 41

Gremio

Question 42

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Inquires about Petruchio’s new bride when Grumio returns home

Answer 42

Curtis

Question 43

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Makes a cap for Kate

Answer 43

Haberdasher

Question 44

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Makes a dress for Kate

Answer 44

Tailor

Question 45

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Pays for the dress

Answer 45

Hortensio

Question 46

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is told men for Mantua will be killed

Answer 46

Pedant

Question 47

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Drops the Bible at the wedding

Answer 47

Priest

Question 48

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Are secretly wed

Answer 48

Lucentio and Bianca

Question 49

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is thought to be the most modest girl in Padua

Answer 49

Bianca

Question 50

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is knocked soundly at Hortensio’s house

Answer 50

Grumio

Question 51

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Wife is too busy to come when he calls

Answer 51

Lucentio

Question 52

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Can not marry until her sister does

Answer 52

Bianca

Question 53

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Is called a young virgin by Kate

Answer 53

Vincentio

Question 54

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Pretends to be Vincentio

Answer 54

Pedant

Question 55

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Wins the wager

Answer 55

Petruchio

Question 56

NAME THAT CHARACTER: | Disguises himself as a Latin tutor, Cambio

Answer 56

Lucentio

Question 57

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: | Be able to list 3 of the 5 themes from the play and give a brief description of each

Answer 57

Love-It is only definable to the character who is experiencing it. Love and Money-Everyone tries to offer Baptista riches and promises to care for Bianca handsomely when trying to secure her hand in marriage Power and Language-Those who are well spoken and can manipulate language are the ultimate winners in this work Marriage-Like many of Shakespeare’s comedies a wedding or weddings seem inevitable outcomes to the play Appearance vs. Reality-Easily defined as using the art of illusion to get what one is aiming for within the Shrew

Question 58

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: What is special about Act 2 of the play? (2 things)

Answer 58

1. One Scene | 2. Longest Scene

Question 59

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: | What motivates Kat’s behavior?

Answer 59

She is called a shrew so she acts that way. | Father favors Bianca

Question 60

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: | What are the two ways Love is defined in the play?

Answer 60

1. Petruchio and Kat, Sport to be won | 2. Lucentio and Bianca, An art

Question 61

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: | What is special about Act 4? (2 things)

Answer 61

1. Longest Act | 2. Two story lines

Question 62

QUESTIONS ON ANALYSIS: | Baptista tells Petruchio he will give him another dowry for another daughter. Explain this statement.

Answer 62

He is giving Petruchio the credit for changing Kat. Turning into a good person and not a shrew.

Question 63

ESSAY: Is “ TheTaming of the Shrew” a sexist play? Use at least three examples to support your answer. (The do’s and don’ts of formal writing will apply to the essay. There is no set length. It is worth 25 points.)

Answer 63

YES: “The Taming of the Shrew” is a sexist play. The men in the play barter and trade for women, the men are in charge. Petruchio refer to Kate as “His”, Petruchio uses Kate as a money investment. Baptista uses his daughter as a conversation piece and despite his love for his children, Baptista uses them like property. NO: “The Taming of the Shrew” is not a sexist play. Kat speaks her mind, she is not concerned with finding a man,Kate seems in some aspects to “Humor” her husband, and Kate’s final speech is very sarcastic.