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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 about women?
(a) He's happier without them and is a confirmed bachelor.
(b) He has a hard time controlling himself around beautiful women.
(c) He thinks all women are silly creatures, like animals.
(d) He thinks men are superior to women and should tell them what to do.

2. To what does Higgins compare Liza?
(a) A flower in the mud.
(b) The Queen of Sheba.
(c) A diamond in the rough.
(d) A squashed cabbage-leaf.

3. What does Higgins notice about Liza's father, Doolittle?
(a) He has a natural talent with language.
(b) He has the same horrible accent as Liza.
(c) He seems cruel and conniving.
(d) Despite his poverty, he seems like an honest fellow.

4. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?
(a) He doesn't like it because it is not phonetic.
(b) He never knows of it because he dies before it is invented.
(c) He thinks it is brilliant and uses it as a model.
(d) He despises it.

5. Who is in Higgins's laboratory with Higgins at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Pickering.
(b) Liza Doolittle.
(c) Mrs. Pearce.
(d) Nobody; Higgins is alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is among Liza's treasured possessions?

2. What does Sweet send Shaw?

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

4. What does Doolittle promise to do with the money?

5. What is Liza's father's profession?

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