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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?
(a) Liza has only one change of clothing to her name.
(b) Liza never wears pajamas; she sleeps in her underwear.
(c) Liza has no underwear.
(d) Liza's clothing is torn and dirty.

2. What is the Flower Girl selling?
(a) Roses.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Violets.
(d) Daisies.

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

4. What does Higgins ask Mrs. Pearce to do with Liza's clothing?
(a) Wash it in boiling water to kill the mites.
(b) Sew it so that it doesn't look so raggedy.
(c) Burn it at once.
(d) Throw it away.

5. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(b) An uncommon vowel in English.
(c) It is similar to a question mark.
(d) A vowel of indefinite sound.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?

2. To Shaw, what is the main advantage of Henry Sweet's "Current Shorthand"?

3. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?

4. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

5. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Higgins's laboratory. What does it reveal about his character?

2. What does Higgins boast that he can do for the Flower Girl?

3. What does the Flower Girl do at the end of Act 1 that shows she has a sense of pride and dignity about her?

4. What makes some English people despise others? What can we infer would solve this problem?

5. What should all great art be, according to Shaw? Do you agree? What does Shaw hope his play will teach?

6. Why, according to Shaw, is it important that people be trained scientifically to lose their accents, rather than simply learning by imitation?

7. Why does Liza's father come to see Higgins?

8. Who are Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, and Henry Sweet, and why are they heroes to Shaw?

9. Describe Higgins.

10. Describe Henry Sweet.

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