Answer Key to Password Readers The Taming of the Shrew Chapter 1 pages 4 5 (1) Not a penny S Shall constable? LL Is he dead? L Put rings fingers L Thank you A If it pleases H (2) poor unwise ugly mean unhappy plain humourless stupid old thin (3) No, not a denier. I am not going to pay a penny. You will not pay? Are you going to pay? Grim Death What an awful sight. He breathes He is breathing. pages 8 9 (4) 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. T (5) good-looking, funny, poor, tall, thin (6) Open Examples The Lord is rich. The Lord is good-looking. The Lord is funny. (7) shouted infuriated came had replied fell asleep rushed off Other past tense forms to enter, to decide, to rush, to notice, to exclaim, to laugh, to tell, to take, 1
(8) 1. was lying, shouted 2. was sleeping, arrived 3. noticed, was telling 4. were eating and drinking, instructed Chapter 2 Pages 10 11 (1) 1. Sly, servants, Bartholomew the page as his wife 2. They are telling him he is a lord, has a wife and has been asleep for 15 years 3. It is about deceiving and convincing Sly about his new situation. (2) 1, 3, 5, 2, 4 pages 14 15 (3) 1. Because the Lord s men carried him there after finding him drunk 2. Wine, ale and new clothes 3. Because he didn t understand and still thought he was Christopher Sly the tinker and beggar. 4. The page Bartholomew dressed as a woman 5. a group of actors (4) 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F (5) 1. tastes 2. feels 3. hear 4. see (6) drink a cup of sack a glass of dry white wine taste the conservers taste these sugared fruits What raiment will Your Honour wear what would Your Honour like to wear? (7) For Since fifteen years December a long time Monday five years Christmas six months 9 o clock four days Easter Summer (8) woke up / offered / was / had / drunk / eaten / told / was / had / wanted 2
Chapter 3 pages 16 17 (1) 1. Lucentio and his servant Tranio, Katherina and Bianca 2. The two men are discussing the women. 3. The wench is Katherina (stark mad) 4. The maid is Biana (mild) (2) 1. tutor a private teacher 2. merchant a businessman 3. lord a nobleman 4. beggar asks for money in the street 5. servant works for a lord 6. landlady owner of a pub, hotel (3) Open pages 20 21 (4) 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T (5) 1. e 2. f 3. d 4. a 5. c 6. g 7. b (6) 1. hungry 2. it must be a diamond 3. she must be from France 4. must be hot there (7) Open Example Katherina, the mad one, will change. (8) 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 Settings (pages 22 23) (from left to right): 6, 2, 5, 4, 3, 1 Chapter 4 pages 24 25 (1) 1New characters arrive looking for wives. They discuss the possibility of one marrying Katherina. (2) 1. marry 2. suitors 3. marriage 4. rivals 5. declare 6. husband 7. wife 3
(3) a. to wive as a verb old fashioned verbs: thrive, woo b. thee = you c. Think you a little din = Do you think? pages 28 29 (4) 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T (5) easygoing relaxed old-fashioned has traditional values self-confident sure of yourself strong-willed determined self-centred thinks of oneself big-headed think you know everything (6) Open Suggested paragraph Lucentio is the son of a rich merchant called Vincentio. He has a servant called Tranio. He comes from Pisa. He came to Padua to study the arts. He has fallen in love with Bianca and is now disguised as a poetry teacher in order to woo Bianca. (7) 1. find 2. can declare 3. takes 4. can marry (8) visit / find / disguise / found / now Chapter 5 pages 30 31 (1) Katherina and Bianca will have disagreements over Suitors. Petruchio will make his first attempt to tame Katherina. (2) 1. d 2. a 3. b 4. e 5. f 6. c (3) unbind my hands Untie my hands What you will command me I will do I will do anything you want I charge thee tell whom thou lov st best Tell me which of them, you like best I ll cuff you if you strike again. If you hit me again I ll hit you. pages 34 35 (4) 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F (5) 1. Bianca 2. Katherina 3. Baptista 4. Petrucho 5. Hortensio (Litio) 6. Petruchio 4
(6) drop off driven, left here break off end relationship come off succeed set off begin journey send off leave at someone s command tell off reprimand (7) 1. set off 2. sent off 3. told off 4. come off (8) 1. told 2. told 3. said 4. told 5. told (9) 1, 2, 5, 3, 4 Chapter 6 pages 36 37 (1) This chapter is about the music and poetry lessons with the disguised tutors. (2) Open Example The trumpet is used in classical music and jazz. (3) Open Examples They used the lute, an Elizabethan guitar. They used drums, flutes, recorders. They liked to dance to live music. pages 40 41 (4) 1. Cambio and Litio were with Bianca. Their real are Lucentio and Hortensio. 2. Lucentio gave the first lesson. 3. He spoke in Latin and declared love in the translation. 4. By suggesting that Hortensio tune the instrument first 5. By giving her a piece of paper with the chords for a gamut that had declarations of love. 6. She prefers Lucentio and neglects Hortensio. (5) Gremio (6) a. translation b. poetry c. tune d. lute e. instruments f. philosophy (7) a. have been watching b. have been acting c. has been behaving d. has been tuning e. has been learning (8) a. Bianca / Hortensio / Litio b. Litio c. Cambio d. Bianca e. servant 5
Settings (pages 42 43) (from left to right): 2, 5, 1, 6, 3, 4 Chapter 7 pages 44 45 (1) Petruochio and Katherina will get married today. She is upset because he is strangely dressed. In the second picture she seems to accept the strange situation. (2) a. Old breeches thrice-tuned The adjective comes after the noun. She must with me There is no verb go. What is mine own Own is after mine. pages 48 49 b. Today, we use will instead of shall. Today, we use would instead of may. (3) 1. Because Petruchio turned up for the wedding dressed very strangely. 2. He was surprised and angry 3. He said She is marrying me, not my clothes 4. They planned to find someone to pretend to be Vincentio (Lucentio s father) and for Lucentio to marry Bianca in secret. 5. He said that Katherina was a lamb and Petruchio was like a devil at the ceremony. 6. Yes, she said let us go in to the wedding reception. (4) 2. Lucentio d 3. Tranio e 4. Baptista a 5. Petruchio b (5) Adjective Abstract noun Adverb relief relievedly ecstatic ecstatically loudness loudly apprehensive apprehensively frustration frustratedly grateful gratefully (6) Open (7) 1. was / like 2. is like 3. liked 4. was like 5. did / like (8) Open 6
Chapter 8 pages 50 51 (1) 5, 4, 3, 6, 2, 1 (2) 1. Petruchio and Katherina and the servants of his house. 2. He is complaining about the food. She is trying to calm him. The servants are waiting nervously. 3. She is rather surprised by her new husband s wild behaviour. 4. She is a bit less wild herself. 5. He is trying to beat his bad-tempered wife at her own game. pages 54 55 (3) 1. F 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. F (4) 1. Grumio 2. Petruchio 3. Grumio 4. Petruchio 5. Petruchio (5) 1. Curtis c 2. Grumio d 3. Curtis a 4. himself e 5. Katherina b (6) stumbled, wear, see, do, waded, shrew, burnt, give, got, rub, eat, ring, dare, dismount, swear, seen Open Examples She waded through the mud. The guests were shocked. (7) arrived / fell / fell / was / was / tried / it / was / is / am / haven t had / am is / hope / write (8) Open. Her father s reply. Suggested beginning Dear Katherina, I was really shocked by your letter. Do you really think your new husband is Chapter 9 pages 56 57 (1) Lucentio is courting Bianca, back in Padua. Tranio is observing. Tranio is meeting a merchant to arrange for him to be disguised as Vincento (Lucention s father). 7
(2) 1. c 2. d 3. a 4. e 5. b (3) 1. upset 2. fit for 3. unfaithful 4. execute 5. agree (4) She bears me She has encouraged me to court her. What countryman, I pray? And where are you from, sir? pages 60 61 (5) 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. T 6. F 7. T (6) Refer to an atlas. (7) a. inheritance b. to prove c. widow d. plan e. impersonate (8) 1. had come 2. had visited 3. had heard 4. had come 5. had quarrelled (8) Open Chapter 10 pages 62 63 (1) 5, 2, 6, 1, 3, 4 (2) Pluck up thy spirits Cheer up diligently carefully dress meat decorated the eat dish masquing stuff it looks like a toy bid me make it I followed instructions fashion of the time current fashion pages 66 67 (3) 1. She was given no food, on Petruchio s instructions. 2. It would be bad for her. 3. Eat all the meat quickly leaving none for her 4. It looks like a porridge bowl! he shouted 5. He called it a fancy dress costume cut up like an apple tart. 6. To drive Katherina crazy as part of the taming the shrew process. He actually thought the work was fine and paid the tailor secretly. (4) a. 3 b. 1 c. 1 d. 2 e. 3 f. 2 (5) 7 1 8 11 9 2 5 4 10 3 8
(6) Open (7) 1. take 2. brought 3. take 4. take 5. bring (8) begged / teased / entered / cooked / came / hated / shouted / ordered / went / was Chapter 11 pages 68 69 (1) Two people are posing as Vincentio. The merchant from Padua knows he is not Vincentio but he does not know he has been fooled. The real Vincentio is unaware of the other. (2) a. 5 b. 3 c. 1 d. 6 e. 4 f. 7 g. 8 h. 2 (3) Now you must act as a father to me. He is talking to the merchant. He is referring t the inheritance. pages 74 75 (4) 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. T (5) a. 5 b. 6 c. 4 d. 3 e. 2 f. 1 (6) Make a promise a statement a mistake a cake a comment a decision an offer a noise an impression Do the shopping homework your duty an exercise your best the washing up nothing (7) 1. did 2. made 3. make 4. made 5. do 6. made 7. make (8) Open 9
Chapter 12 pages 76 77 (1) Two people are claiming to be Vincentio, so they are dressed identically. One is the real Vincentio, the other is an impostor. The story has a happy ending. Everybody is smiling in the final illustration. (2) immediately, calmly, loudly, lovingly, kindly, humbly, maliciously, quietly, sadly, hotly, warmly, rudely hotly Katherina loudly knocked loudly (Vincentio) rudely merchant (3) a. Verbs Are is now used for art. b. Nouns (pronouns) Thou is now used for thine. c. Word order Bid my father welcome. pages 82 83 (4) 1. deceive 2. believe 3. get 4. arrest 5. understood / forgive (5) 1. suggested 2. admitted 3. risked 4. admitted 5. liked (6) Open (7) Baptist / Hortensio / Gremio / Katherina / Lucentio / Padua / Petruchio / Baptista / Katherina / Luncentio / Tutor / Tutor / Bianca / widow / Vincentio / Lucentio / Bianca / Vincentio / Biondello / Baptista / Lucentio / Petruchio / Katherina / 100 (8) Open Settings (pages 84 85) (from left to right): 3, 4, 1, 2, 5, 6 About the Story William Shakespeare (page 89) (1) 1. 1564 Shakespeare was born. 2. 1603 Queen Elizabeth I died. 3. 1616 Shakespeare died. 4. 1582 He married Ann Hathaway. 5. 1613 The Globe theatre burnt down. (2) 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. F 5. T 6. F 10
Elizabethan Theatre (page 91) (2) Open Example Elizabethan theatres had no air-conditioning, no lighting and very little scenery. (3) Open Examples It might rain and lighting could be poor. There may be no audience because of disease outbreaks. In an emergency, there would be panic and loss of life. (4) Open Not Only Glossary (pages 92 96) (1) Katherina bonny, ill-tempered The house broken-down Bianca humble The servants rag-tag Sly drunken Clothes moth-eaten, fashionable Wives giddy, faithless, frivolous Petruchio s father deceased (2) Open (3) humbly humble meekly meek modestly modest resignedly resigned sullenly sullen suspiciously suspicious temptingly tempting thoughtfully thoughtful (4) Open 11