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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Liza become upset with Higgins?
(a) She thinks he's spying on her for the police.
(b) He knocks over her basket of flowers.
(c) He makes fun of her accent in front of everyone.
(d) He won't give her any money.

4. Why is Clara annoyed with her mother?
(a) She acts superior to the Flower Girl.
(b) She gives the Flower Girl too much money.
(c) She won't buy any flowers for Clara.
(d) She doesn't give the Flower Girl any money.

5. How do the bystanders treat Liza when she becomes upset?
(a) They completely ignore her as if she is invisible.
(b) They tell her to get lost because she is a worthless flower girl.
(c) They are sympathetic to her and defend her.
(d) They are shocked by her bad language.

6. What is one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?
(a) To encourage people to value all types of accents in English.
(b) To make people aware of the social inequalities in England.
(c) To entertain people and make them forget their worries for another day.
(d) To let people know of the existence of phoneticians and how important they are.

7. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?
(a) Sweet dies before he can see the play.
(b) Sweet only writes libelous articles against his fellow academics.
(c) Sweet looks down on the theater as unacademic.
(d) Sweet has no interest in promoting his ideas to the public.

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

9. On what basis do some English people despise others?
(a) Their socioeconomic class.
(b) Their level of education.
(c) Whether they are foreign or native-born citizens.
(d) Their accents or dialects of English.

10. 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.

11. What is Freddy looking for at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Someone to love.
(b) Tickets to the theater.
(c) A taxicab.
(d) Flowers for his mother.

12. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Paris.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

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

14. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?
(a) He can make her rich.
(b) He can teach her to speak properly.
(c) He can give her a proper education.
(d) He can make her a Duchess.

15. Where does Liza tell Freddy she is going at the end of Act 1?
(a) Home.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) To see Higgins.
(d) To jump in the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?

2. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?

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

4. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?

5. What insulting term does Higgins use to describe Liza in Act 2?

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