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Petruchio’s strategy to “tame” his wife Kate can best be described as 

In Act I, Scene 2, Petruchio states, “Be she as foul as was Florentius’ love,/As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd/ As Socrates’ Xanthippe or a worse,/She moves me not…/I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;/If wealthily, then happily in Padua” (62–73). Explain what he means.

In Act 4.6, Katharina tells Petruchio, “Then God be blessed, it is the blessed sun,/But sun it is not when you say it is not,/ And the moon changes even as your mind./What you will have it named, even that it is,/ And so it shall be still for Katherine “ (IV.vi.19–23).  What does this suggest about Katharina’s degree of submission to her husband?

Petruchio’s wealth comes from

This man seeks to marry Bianca

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In the incident at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, the United States

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Martin Luther King Jr. first emerged as the leader of the civil rights movement when he

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