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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the Flower Girl?
(a) She is only fourteen or fifteen.
(b) She is about eighteen or twenty.
(c) She is "sweet sixteen."
(d) She has just turned twenty-one.

2. Which of the following does NOT describe the Flower Girl's appearance?
(a) She has bad teeth.
(b) She is wearing a black sailor hat.
(c) She is very clean and neat.
(d) Her hair needs to be brushed.

3. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?
(a) Neppomuck.
(b) Doolittle.
(c) Pickering.
(d) Higgins.

4. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?
(a) She has seen him somewhere before.
(b) They are secretly lovers.
(c) She doesn't; she calls all young men "Freddy" or "Charlie."
(d) She heard the women call him by that name.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following first interests Higgins about Liza?

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

3. Who is Tito Pagliardini?

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

5. At which university does Sweet teach?

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