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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. Who is Henry Sweet?
(a) A sweet-tempered professor of language and literature.
(b) A phonetics expert whom Shaw admired.
(c) A high official who popularized the subject of phonetics.
(d) The editor of a monthly review.

2. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?
(a) A London patriarch.
(b) A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.
(c) The inventor of the telephone.
(d) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.

3. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?
(a) Involve him in the theater.
(b) Help him get an article published.
(c) Get him a teaching position.
(d) Dedicate the play Pygmalion to him.

4. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?
(a) An energetic enthusiast who supports language reform.
(b) A multilinguist and expert in Latinate languages.
(c) A low-class person who cannot speak the language properly.
(d) A professor of English literatures specializing in Shakespeare and Milton.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should happen with the English alphabet, according to Shaw?

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

3. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?

4. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

5. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?

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