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TOTS Act 1

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who arrives in Padua to study philosophy?

a)

Lucentio and his servant

b)

Baptista and his daughters

c)

Hortensio and his friend

d)

Vincentio and his son

2.

What is the rule set by the girls' father regarding marriage?

a)

The younger daughter must marry first

b)

Both daughters must marry at the same time

c)

The older daughter must marry before the younger one

d)

The daughters can marry anyone they choose

3.

Who falls instantly in love with Bianca?

a)

Lucentio

b)

Hortensio

c)

Baptista

d)

Vincentio

4.

What disguise does Tranio suggest for Lucentio to get close to Bianca?

a)

As a merchant

b)

As a tutor

c)

As a nobleman

d)

As a servant

5.

Who arrives in Padua at Hortensio's house?

a)

Petruchio and his servant Grumio

b)

Lucentio and Tranio

c)

Gremio and Hortensio

d)

Bianca and her father

6.

What has recently happened to Petruchio's father?

a)

He has moved to another city

b)

He has passed away

c)

He has remarried

d)

He has become wealthy

7.

What does Hortensio suggest Petruchio do to impress Bianca?

a)

Present himself as a wealthy suitor

b)

Present himself as a music tutor

c)

Present himself as a Latin tutor

d)

Present himself as a poet

8.

Who is the tutor in disguise according to Gremio?

a)

Petruchio

b)

"Cambio"

c)

Hortensio

d)

"Litio"

9.

Who must be married before Bianca according to Baptista's rule?

a)

Lucentio

b)

Tranio

c)

Katherina

d)

Gremio

10.

What does Lucentio do to get close to Bianca?

a)

Disguise himself as a tutor

b)

Write her a letter

c)

Send her gifts

d)

Ask for her hand in marriage

11.

Who plans to take Lucentio's place in Padua?

a)

Gremio

b)

Hortensio

c)

Tranio

d)

Baptista

12.

What misunderstanding occurs between Petruchio and Grumio?

a)

The meaning of "knock"

b)

The identity of Katherine

c)

The location of Padua

d)

The role of Lucentio

13.

Why does Petruchio want to get married?

a)

To inherit wealth

b)

To travel

c)

To become a tutor

d)

To impress Baptista

14.

Who does Hortensio suggest Petruchio should marry?

a)

Bianca

b)

Katherine

c)

Lucentio

d)

Gremio

15.

What do Gremio and Hortensio decide by the end of the scene?

a)

To fight for Bianca

b)

To become friends and eat together

c)

To leave Padua

d)

To marry Katherine

16.

Match the speaker to the lines spoken.

a)

"Gentlemen, importune me no farther. For how I firmly am resolved you know; that is, not to bestow my youngest daughter before I have a husband for the elder."

1.

Baptista

b)

"Knock, sir! Whom should I knock? Is there any man has rebuked your worship?"

2.

Grumio

c)

"And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study virtue, and that part of philosophy will I apply that threats of happiness by virtue specially to be achieved."

3.

Lucentio

d)

"Content you in my discontent - Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe. My books and instruments shall be my company, on them to look and practice by myself."

4.

Bianca

e)

"I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife with wealth enough, and young and beauteous...her only faught, and that is faults enough, is that she is intolerable curst, and shrewd, and froward."

5.

Hortensio