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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While talking with the Eynsford Hills at the social visit in Act 3, what does Higgins say all people really are?
(a) Savages.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Animals.
(d) Equals under the sight of God.

3. 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 see if people really believe that she is a duchess.
(d) To allow his mother to meet her.

4. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?
(a) Who will ever marry someone like me?
(b) What's to become of me?
(c) Will I ever be a real lady?
(d) Don't you think I'm beautiful?

5. What does Liza do when she looks into the mirror?
(a) Screams in rage.
(b) Breaks into a self-satisfied smile.
(c) Sticks her tongue out at herself.
(d) Bursts into tears.

6. What shocking word does Liza use during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) Devil.
(b) Murder.
(c) Damn.
(d) Bloody.

7. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?
(a) To Covent Garden, where they see Liza's father.
(b) To see Mrs. Higgins.
(c) To the chapel to get married.
(d) They ride around the city all night.

8. What does Liza realize at the end of Act 5?
(a) She's truly and deeply in love with Higgins.
(b) She's truly and deeply in love with Freddy.
(c) She's no better than she ever was.
(d) She's every bit as good as Higgins.

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

10. What does Liza forget in Act 5?
(a) All of Higgins' wrongdoing to her.
(b) All of her fathers wrongs to her.
(c) How to speak as she did before.
(d) How good it feels to curse.

11. Who is Neppomuck?
(a) The ambassador from Hungary.
(b) A Hungarian prince.
(c) A former student of Higgins.
(d) A major rival of Higgins.

12. Where is Liza at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) Back in Covent Garden, wandering in the vegetable market.
(b) With Freddy.
(c) With her father.
(d) With Mrs. Higgins.

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

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

15. Why is Doolittle dressed up at the end of the play?
(a) For his wedding.
(b) For Liza and Freddy's wedding.
(c) To make a speech.
(d) To impress Liza and Higgins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Higgins call Liza in Act 4 when she bursts out in a rage at him?

3. What does Liza say when she sees her father looking so different in Act 5?

4. What shocking fact does Liza reveal about her father while talking with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

5. What does Higgins think of Neppomuck?

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