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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface to Pygmalion. A Professor of Phonetics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?
(a) To play the Queen of Spain onstage.
(b) To become teachers.
(c) To win love.
(d) To meet monarchs such as the Queen of Spain.

3. At which university does Sweet teach?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Harvard.
(d) The Imperial Institute in London.

4. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?
(a) The vowels and some consonants.
(b) The vowels.
(c) The consonants and some vowels.
(d) The consonants.

5. What is one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?
(a) To entertain people and make them forget their worries for another day.
(b) To encourage people to value all types of accents in English.
(c) To let people know of the existence of phoneticians and how important they are.
(d) To make people aware of the social inequalities in England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

2. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?

3. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?

4. Based on what you read in the Preface, with which of the following statements do you think Shaw would agree?

5. What does Sweet send Shaw?

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