Key Quotes

Question 1

Katherina showing that she is strong and will ‘sting’ him but he will ‘pluck out’ the stinger (genitals)

Answer 1

Katherina - If I be waspish, best beware my sting

Question 2

If the fruit is rotten there isnt much to choose from between marrying Kate and being whipped in the marketplace

Answer 2

Hortensio - There’s small choice in rotten apples

Question 3

In her soliloquy, she is indicating the vast change in her attitude and stance on society that she now believe she has been tamed and will be obedient to Petruchio

Answer 3

Katherina - thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, thy head, thy sovereign.

Question 4

One of Petruchio’s taming techniques making Katherina believe whatever he says

Answer 4

Petruchio - it shall be moon, or star or what I list, or e’er I journey to your father’s house

Question 5

Katherina asks to be called Katherina not Kate but he continues to do so whilst trying to woo her

Answer 5

Petruchio - But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom

Question 6

Biondello playing to his stock character of the idiotic servant, and then he buys their fake story of lucentio killing someone and now he needs to disguise but in reality its for bianca

Answer 6

Biondello - Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes or you stolen his, or both?

Question 7

Showing her shrewish tendencies by hitting Petruchio in their repartee section after he is making shrewd comments

Answer 7

Katherina - That I’ll try. She strikes him.

Question 8

Taming Katherina even though there is nothing wrong with the food he wastes it to starve her

Answer 8

Petruchio - He throws the food and dishes at them

Question 9

Another taming technique of sleep deprivation to break her

Answer 9

Petruchio - And here I’ll fling the pillow

Question 10

A pun on ‘to court her’ referring to the way shrewish women were scolded/ punished / humiliated parading them around town

Answer 10

Gremio - to cart her, rather, she’s too rough for me

Question 11

Bianca will not marry before Katherina has a partner, the start of the plot of the whole play

Answer 11

Baptista - not to bestow my youngest daughter until I have a husband for the elder

Question 12

Playing the expected role of a Elizabethan women she says she will spend her time studying until she gets married

Answer 12

Bianca - Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe;

My books and instruments shall be my company

Question 13

She will say what she wants (shrewish) to express her anger or she will die from keeping it in.

Answer 13

Katherina - My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break

Question 14

Katherina is yelling at her father for humiliating her and treating her like a prostitute in front of Gremio and Hortensio

Answer 14

Katherina - I pray you, sir, is it your will

To make a stale of me amongst these mates?

Question 15

Showing how Petruchio’s taming is described and how good he is at

Answer 15

Gremio / Hortensio - Petruchio’s Taming school

Question 16

Gremio realizing it is no longer possible to marry Bianca as his plans have been ruined but is there now for a good time

Answer 16

Gremio - My cake is dough, but I’ll in among the rest,/Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

Question 17

Petruchio applauding Katherina’s speech, has bested his wife and is ready to celebrate the transformation, Wench - condescending term, for a girl / young women, it reflects his mood.

Answer 17

Petruchio - Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate!