Pygmalion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Pygmalion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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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. 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 win love.
(c) To become teachers.
(d) To meet monarchs such as the Queen of Spain.

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

3. To Shaw, what is the main advantage of Henry Sweet's "Current Shorthand"?
(a) It can express every sound in the language perfectly.
(b) Everyone is familiar with it, as it is widely taught in secretarial schools.
(c) It can be used as a kind of secret code or cryptogram.
(d) It can be used on postcards, where there is limited space to write.

4. Who is Tito Pagliardini?
(a) A phonetics expert.
(b) An opera singer.
(c) A playwright.
(d) An expert in Italian dialects.

5. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?
(a) Sweet has no interest in promoting his ideas to the public.
(b) Sweet dies before he can see the play.
(c) Sweet only writes libelous articles against his fellow academics.
(d) Sweet looks down on the theater as unacademic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Henry Sweet?

3. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?

4. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?

5. Which comment does Shaw make about the realism in his play?

(see the answer key)

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