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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Higgins say when he finds that Liza is not married?
(a) Men will soon be dying for her.
(b) She will marry a duke.
(c) Nobody would want to marry the likes of her.
(d) He will marry her himself.

2. What does Higgins give Liza in Act 2 when she begins to cry?
(a) A whack on the bum with a broomstick.
(b) A meal.
(c) A shilling for the taxi.
(d) A handkerchief to wipe her nose with.

3. Why can't Liza read what Higgins writes?
(a) It is written in a cryptic code.
(b) It is written in French, a language she doesn't know.
(c) He uses a phonetic alphabet.
(d) She is uneducated and has never learned how to read.

4. Which of the following describes Liza's home?
(a) A dirty shack she shares with her whole family.
(b) A small, shabby room in an alley.
(c) She sleeps in a suburban kitchen with a fireplace.
(d) She is homeless and sleeps in an alley.

5. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?
(a) An expert in shorthand who, like Higgins, lived in England.
(b) A portrait painter who, like Higgins, loved phonetics.
(c) A phonetician who, like Higgins, greatly admired Milton.
(d) A professor at Oxford who, like Higgins, had a fiery temper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?

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

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

4. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

5. At which university does Sweet teach?

(see the answer key)

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