The Taming of the Shrew Study Guide

Question 1

the trait of self denial from worldly pleasures

Answer 1

Austerity

Question 2

sorrowful through loss or deprovation

Answer 2

Bereft

Question 3

any movable property

Answer 3

Chattels

Question 4

a short jacket

Answer 4

Jerkin

Question 5

showing lack of judgement or experience

Answer 5

Credulous

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Dowry

Question 7

to show contempt for or to disobey

Answer 7

Flout

Question 8

to hold back

Answer 8

Forbear

Question 9

a scale of musical notes

Answer 9

Gamut

Question 10

dizzy, lightheaded, or lacking seriousness

Answer 10

Giddy

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Pantaloons

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Aside

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Soliloquy

Question 14

two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry

Answer 14

Couplet

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Pun

Question 16

the misuse of a longer word for a humorous effect

Answer 16

Malaproprism

Question 17

when the audience knows things that the characters in the work do not know

Answer 17

Dramatic Irony

Question 18

a naive hero whose view of the world differs from the authors and the reader it flatters the readers intelligence at the expense of the hero

Answer 18

Structural Irony

Question 19

when what is said is not what is really meant

Answer 19

Verbal Irony

Question 20

a character who represents one human trait or emotion

Answer 20

Stock character

Question 21

A tinker

Answer 21

Sly

Question 22

Wants to marry for fortune

Answer 22

Petruchio

Question 23

Falls in love at first sight

Answer 23

Lucentio

Question 24

Is seen as a shrew by all in Padua

Answer 24

Katharina

Question 25

The man in Padua who Petruchio knows before the play starts

Answer 25

Hortensio

Question 26

From Verona

Answer 26

Petruchio

Question 27

Is told that he will be punished for breaking glasses

Answer 27

Sly

Question 28

Petruchio's personal servant

Answer 28

Grumio

Question 29

Marries a widow

Answer 29

Hortensio

Question 30

Disguises himself as a music teacher

Answer 30

Hortensio, (litio)

Question 31

Ties up Bianca

Answer 31

Katharina

Question 32

Is told that Lucentio killed a man

Answer 32

Biondello

Question 33

Says the sun is the moon

Answer 33

Petruchio & Kate

Question 34

Tells t he crowd that Katharine is affectionate

Answer 34

Petruchio

Question 35

Cusses at the wedding

Answer 35

Petruchio

Question 36

Is more of a shrew than Kate

Answer 36

Petruchio

Question 37

Throws meat about the kitchen

Answer 37

Petruchio

Question 38

Dresses Sly up as a Lord

Answer 38

Lord's

Question 39

Pretends to be Sly's wife

Answer 39

Page

Question 40

Tries to outbid Lucentio for Bianca

Answer 40

"Lucentio" & Gremio

Question 41

Is a pantaloons

Answer 41

Gremio

Question 42

Inquires about Petruchio's new bride when Grumio returns home

Answer 42

Curtis

Question 43

Pays for the dress

Answer 43

Hortensio

Question 44

Makes a dress for Kate

Answer 44

Tailor

Question 45

Drops the Bible at the wedding

Answer 45

Priest

Question 46

Are secretly wed

Answer 46

Lucentio & Bianca

Question 47

Is thought to be the most modest girl in Padua

Answer 47

Bianca

Question 48

Wife is too busy to come when he calls

Answer 48

Bianca

Question 49

Can not marry until her sister does

Answer 49

Bianca

Question 50

Pretends to be Vincentio

Answer 50

Pedant

Question 51

Wife is too busy to come when he calls

Answer 51

Lucentio

Question 52

Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

Answer 52

Cambio

Question 53

Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

Answer 53

Cambio & Lucentio

Question 54

What is special about Act 2 of the play? (2 things)

Answer 54

It's one scene, longest, most important plot scene

Question 55

Disguises himself as a Latin tutor

Answer 55

Cambio & Lucentio

Question 56

Is called a young virgin by Kate

Answer 56

Vincentio