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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Sweet send Shaw?
(a) Books.
(b) Money.
(c) Letters.
(d) Postcards.

4. What bet does Higgins make with Pickering?
(a) That Liza will marry the Duke and become a Duchess.
(b) That he can teach Liza to speak perfect English in three weeks.
(c) That he can pass Liza off as a lady at the ambassador's garden party.
(d) That he can seduce Liza and make her fall in love with him in three months.

5. When Liza comes to see Higgins in Act 2, what does she ask him to do?
(a) Make her into a duchess.
(b) Return the money he took the night before.
(c) Help her open a flower shop.
(d) Give her speech lessons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of Henry Higgins's faults?

2. Where is Act 1 of the play set?

3. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?

4. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?

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

(see the answer key)

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