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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. How is Henry Higgins described?
(a) He is young and handsome, but sloppy in his dress.
(b) He is elderly and distinguished, with the appearance of a scholar.
(c) He is thin and feeble, but has a strong scientific mind.
(d) He is about forty years old, strong and energetic.

2. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?
(a) He is dressed in a uniform.
(b) He is young and dashing.
(c) He is snobbish and rude.
(d) He is an elderly, military type.

3. To what does Higgins compare Liza?
(a) A squashed cabbage-leaf.
(b) The Queen of Sheba.
(c) A flower in the mud.
(d) A diamond in the rough.

4. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?
(a) He is an ill-natured man.
(b) He scorns everyone who did not agree with him about the importance of phonetics.
(c) He angera many people by publishing a libelous article.
(d) Nobody agrees with him that phonetics are important.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?

3. What does Higgins notice about Liza's father, Doolittle?

4. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

5. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are shorthand methods inadequate for ordinary use?

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

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

4. What bet does Pickering make with Higgins? Why does Higgins accept?

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

6. What are three methods of phonetic shorthand that Shaw mentions in Pygmalion, and what are they used for?

7. Describe Henry Sweet.

8. How are Clara and her mother different?

9. What does Higgins do for the Flower Girl? What prompts him to do so? What does this act suggest about Higgins?

10. Who is the note-taker, and what is he actually doing?

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