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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Higgins offer to do for Liza at the end of the play?
(a) Pay for her to go to school.
(b) Adopt her as his daughter.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Get her a flower shop.

2. Why does the policeman stop Freddy and Liza?
(a) He thinks Liza has stolen the jewels.
(b) He recognizes Liza as a flower girl.
(c) They are kissing in the street.
(d) Liza has dropped her handkerchief.

3. Why is Freddy waiting outside Higgins's house when Liza leaves Higgins?
(a) To ask her to marry him.
(b) He watches her window every night.
(c) He wants to congratulate her on her success.
(d) He is hoping she will run away with him.

4. What does Liza say she never did when she was a flower girl?
(a) Sell herself for money.
(b) Put herself on display like a bird in a cage.
(c) Cry for love.
(d) Obey a man.

5. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) Mrs. Higgins's drawing room.
(b) Mrs. Eynsford Hill's parlor.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) The Embassy.

6. What is the main reason Higgins brings Liza to the social visit at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) To announce their upcoming engagement.
(b) To give her practice in polite conversation.
(c) To allow his mother to meet her.
(d) To see if people really believe that she is a duchess.

7. At the beginning of Act 5, Doolittle's life has changed. What must he now do?
(a) Give lectures about morality.
(b) Go at once to America to work for Ezra Wannafeller.
(c) Work hard as a laborer to support Liza.
(d) Teach phonetics at a new school for the poor.

8. What does Freddy tell the officer?
(a) To arrest him instead.
(b) They are engaged.
(c) Liza is a lady.
(d) Liza is his sister.

9. What is striking about Neppomuck's appearance?
(a) He is extremely large and burly.
(b) He is exceptionally handsome.
(c) He has very dark, swarthy skin.
(d) He has a very hairy face.

10. What does Higgins say Liza might do next?
(a) Go back to her father.
(b) Open a jewelry shop.
(c) Become a teacher of phonetics.
(d) Get married.

11. How is Mrs. Higgins portrayed?
(a) Very controlling of her son.
(b) Silly and snobbish.
(c) Adoring of her son, her only child.
(d) Elegant and sensible.

12. Why is Pickering afraid at the party?
(a) Liza makes a mistake when she says a shocking word.
(b) Liza is playing the part too well.
(c) Neppomuck is on the verge of discovering the truth about Liza.
(d) The ambassador's wife asks too many questions.

13. What does Higgins say to Liza after she faces up to him and hurts his feelings in Act 4?
(a) She has wounded him to the core.
(b) There can never be any feeling between the likes of her and the likes of him.
(c) Such an insignificant girl as her can never hurt him.
(d) He always loved her, although she never knew it.

14. Whom do Higgins and Pickering go see when they discover Liza is missing?
(a) The police.
(b) Mrs. Higgins.
(c) Liza's father.
(d) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.

15. What compliment does Higgins pay Liza during their discussion after the party?
(a) She's really rather clever--for a woman.
(b) She's not bad-looking.
(c) She's a great cook.
(d) She is a real lady now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liza throw at Higgins when they return home after the party?

2. Who says, "The secret is not having good manners or bad manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls."

3. What does the ambassador's wife think of Liza?

4. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?

5. Why is Doolittle dressed up at the end of the play?

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