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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?
(a) Playwright.
(b) Linguist.
(c) Phoneticist.
(d) Sociologist.

2. Based on what you read in the Preface, with which of the following statements do you think Shaw would agree?
(a) Truly great art should not seek to be commercially successful.
(b) Great art cannot please everyone; there will always be some wiseacres who cannot appreciate it.
(c) All great art must be didactic; that is, it should teach people something.
(d) Great art should not seek to teach lessons, but to entertain.

3. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?
(a) Successful business organizations.
(b) Early dictaphones.
(c) Popular systems of shorthand.
(d) Phonetic alphabets.

4. Which comment does Shaw make about the realism in his play?
(a) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is very possible in real life.
(b) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is obviously not possible in real life.
(c) Realism is not to be found in the theater.
(d) Realism is the only style that can be respected in the theater.

5. What makes Liza happy at the end of the evening?
(a) Higgins promises to give her lessons.
(b) Higgins gives her a pocketful of change.
(c) She sold all her flowers.
(d) Freddy is falling in love with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Clara annoyed with her mother?

2. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?

3. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

4. What does the taxicab driver realize about Liza that humiliates her?

5. What is Freddy looking for at the beginning of Act 1?

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