Show:
Who's Who
Bianca's Suitors
Plot Points
Act 2
Vocabulary
100

Christopher Sly's "wife"

Who is Bartholomew

100

Intends to go to school, but falls in love

Lucentio

100

Christopher Sly reacts in this way to The Taming of the Shrew at the end of Act 1.

What is he falls asleep and wishes for the play to end.

100

Lucentio pretends to be _______ , Tranio pretends to be ________, while Hortensio pretends to be a _________. 

What is Cambio/a tutor, Lucentio, a tutor
100

She was charmed by his ________ wit. 

What is urbane

200

Known for being “sharp-tongued”

Who is Kate (Katherine)
200

Older man who wishes to marry Bianca

Gremio

200

Hortensio asks Petruchio for this favor after the latter agrees to marry Kate.

What is to help him become a tutor for Bianca.

200

When Petruchio says "“I find you [Kate] gentle./ Twa’s told me you were rough and coy,/...For thou art pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous” he is being ________.

What is sarcastic

200

He will need all of his political ________ in this negotiation.

What is acumen
300

Plans to marry for money

Who is Petruchio

300

Petruchio’s friend; a suitor of Bianca

Who is Hortensio

300

Personal goods in exchange for a bride’s hand in marriage

What is a dowry

300

When Kate and Petruchio first meet, they do this.

What is argue

300

A discrepancy between a declared or implied aim or reason and the true one.

What is obstensible

400

Lucentio's tutor's name

Who is Cambio
400

Real/Fake Lucentio's servant

Biondello

400

At the beginning of Act 1, Kate and Bianca are doing this.

What is fighting.

400

By the end of Act 2, the following is agreed upon.

What is Petruchio is set to marry Kate on Sunday; Lucentio is set to marry Bianca if he can prove his wealth to Baptista 

400

Not harmful or offensive

What is innocuous

500

Rich man who plays a trick on a drunkard 

Who is the Lord

500
Lucentio falls in love with Bianca for this reason.

What is her beauty.

500

Petruchio and Grumio have this banter before visiting Hortensio.

What is Petruchio asks Grumio to knock; Grumio jokes that Petruchio wants him to knock him out, and then claims that Petruchio has “gone mad” for requesting such a thing.

500

The father of Kate and Bianca; says whoever can offer the biggest dowry for Bianca can marry her.

Who is Baptista

500

Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.


What is recalcitrant