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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. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?
(a) Higgins.
(b) Pickering.
(c) Neppomuck.
(d) Doolittle.

2. 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.

3. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) What their job is.
(b) Their secret desires and dreams.
(c) Where they are from.
(d) Their age.

4. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?
(a) It is not a complete and exact phonetic script.
(b) It is very difficult to learn.
(c) He does not have the business organization he needs to popularize it.
(d) It is not legible.

5. How old is the Flower Girl?
(a) She is "sweet sixteen."
(b) She is about eighteen or twenty.
(c) She is only fourteen or fifteen.
(d) She has just turned twenty-one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe the Flower Girl's appearance?

2. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?

3. At the end of Act 2, Higgins is shown teaching Liza a lesson. What specifically does Higgins teach Liza?

4. What does an upside-down e represent?

5. Which of the following describes Liza's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce, think about the plan? Who seems to have a more sensible view of the situation, Higgins or Mrs. Pearce?

2. Why does Liza become upset when Mrs. Pearce takes her up for a bath? What does this incident show about Liza?

3. Who are some of the most important people in England, according to Shaw? Why do you think this is so, again, according to Shaw?

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

5. Describe the Flower Girl.

6. What does Freddy do at the beginning of Act 1 that shows poor manners?

7. What does Liza likely mean when she says "I'm a good girl, I am"? Why does she say this?

8. Who is the Gentleman in the first act, and what do he and the note-taker have in common?

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

10. Why does the Flower Girl become upset at the note-taker? What is she most likely afraid of?

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