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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the taxicab driver realize about Liza that humiliates her?
(a) She is really a prostitute.
(b) She doesn't have any money and cannot pay for the taxi.
(c) She lives in a slum.
(d) She's never ridden in a taxi before and has no idea how much it costs.

2. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) Where they are from.
(b) Their secret desires and dreams.
(c) What their job is.
(d) Their age.

3. What is the Flower Girl selling?
(a) Violets.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Roses.

4. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?
(a) It is not legible.
(b) It is not a complete and exact phonetic script.
(c) He does not have the business organization he needs to popularize it.
(d) It is very difficult to learn.

5. What is Higgins the author of?
(a) Higgins's Universal Alphabet.
(b) Spoken Sanscrit.
(c) The play that everyone has seen that evening.
(d) Famous books about Shakespeare and Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?

2. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?

3. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?

4. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

5. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

(see the answer key)

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