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Shakespeare

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20 Points

Which woman is the Shrew in the play?

Katherine

40 Points

Which woman/sister do all the men want to marry?

Bianca

60 Points

Who marries Katharina?

Petruchio

80 Points

Who disguises himself as Cambio?

Lucentio

100 Points

Who disguises himself as Licio?

Hortensio

120 Points

Who disguises himself as Vincentio?

Pedant

20 Points

Where does most of this play take place?

Padua

40 Points

Who was Bianca’s old (age) suitor?

Gremio

60 Points

Who marries the rich widow?

Hortensio

80 Points

Petruchio plans to kill his wife with ______?

Kindness

100 Points

When Petruchio first meets Katherina, he plans to use the strategy in dealing

with her. What is it?

Reverse psychology

120 Points

Petruchio compares his training of Kate to that of a _____________.

(a kind of bird)

Falcon or Hawk

20 Points

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,/Or else my heart, concealing it,

will break.”

Katherine

40 Points

“I am as peremptory as she proud-minded:/…For I am rough and woo not

like a babe.”

Petruchio

60 Points

“I am content to be Lucentio,/ Because so well I love Lucentio.”

Tranio

80 Points

“While I play the good husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at the

university.”

Vincentio

100 Points

“The gain I seek is quiet in the match.”

Baptista

120 Points

“Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and all foul ways.”

Grumio

20 Points

Having many characters in disguise relates to which theme?

Appearances vs. Reality

40 Points

What initally motivates Petruchio to marry Katherina?

Money

60 Points

Throughout the play, we see Kate undergo several changes in her

character. These changes relate to which theme?

Motivation

80 Points

List 3 ways characters “act out of kindness.”

Answers will vary

100 Points

List 3 Elizabethan qualities for an “ideal wife.”

Answers will vary.

120 Points

List the 3 themes we discussed in connection to The Taming of the Shrew.

You have 1 minute more

20 Points

True or False:

Elizabethans believed in love at first site.

True

40 Points

Marriages were usually arranged in Elizabethan times. What the “wife”

brought to the marriage was called the ______________.

Dowery

60 Points

List 3 inappropriate behaviors Petruchio exhibited at his wedding to Katharina?

Answers will vary.

80 Points

List 3 socially acceptable activities for Bianca, Katherina, and the women of

their time.

Answers will vary.

100 Points

What were 3 responsibilities a wealthy young man had to his family when he traveled or attended school in another

city? (Think Lucentio.)

Answers will vary.

120 Points

List 3 duties a woman owes to her husband according to Katherina’s Act V,

sc II monologue.

Answers will vary.

20 Points

Name Shakespeare’s theater.

The Globe

40 Points

How much did an average person pay to enter the theater?

A penny

60 Points

The theaters of Shakespeare’s time were usually this shape.

Round or circular

80 Points

How did the theaters advertise that they were running a play that day?

They flew a flag.

100 Points

The people who stood on all three sides of the raised stage were called this.

Groundlings

120 Points

List 3 features of an Elizabethan theater.

Answers will vary.

20 Points

Shakepeare’s first name is…

William

40 Points

Where was he born?

Strattford on Avon

60 Points

Name 3 jobs Shakespeare had connected to life in the theater.

Answers will vary.

80 Points

Give the name of one of the acting companies to which Shakespeare

belonged.

The Lord Chamberlain’s Men or The King’s Men

100 Points

Who ruled England and financially supported the arts so people like

Shakespeare could be successful?

Queen Elizabeth I

120 Points

What was unusual about Shakespeare’s birthday? (April 23)

He died on that same date 52 years later.