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

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

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

4. What should happen with the English alphabet, according to Shaw?
(a) It should be completely modified to conform with classical Greek letters.
(b) It should be simplified to include only the most essential letters.
(c) It should be increased to the size of the Russian alphabet.
(d) It should be the same as the Spanish alphabet.

5. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?
(a) Around 1890.
(b) In the 1850s.
(c) In the 1870s.
(d) Around 1910.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which university does Sweet teach?

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

3. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

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

5. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?

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