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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 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.

2. For whom or what does Pickering say the evening has been a real triumph?
(a) For humanity.
(b) For Higgins.
(c) For Liza.
(d) For the young science of phonetics.

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

4. What does Liza think about the party?
(a) She thinks she can never fit in with all these people.
(b) She is dazzled by all the glamour and glitz and never wants it to end.
(c) She agrees with Higgins that high society parties are dreadfully boring.
(d) She is delighted that she is causing such a sensation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!"

2. What does Liza realize at the end of Act 5?

3. Why is Pickering afraid at the party?

4. What does Higgins offer to do for Liza at the end of the play?

5. What does Liza say she never did when she was a flower girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Doolittle unhappy with his new status? What is ironic about this?

2. Does Higgins really not care about Liza? How can you tell? What comments and reactions on Higgins's part show that he is growing fond of Eliza?

3. Why doesn't Higgins want Liza to fetch his slippers for him and perform other like tasks?

4. What does Higgins think Liza should do with her future? Does he really give it any thought?

5. What does Mrs. Higgins say when she learns the two men have phoned the police at the beginning of Act 5? What does Mrs. Higgins realize about Liza that the two men do not?

6. What do Neppomuck and the ambassador's wife conclude about Liza? What does it suggest about class differences and about high society that Liza is so easily able to fool everyone at the party?

7. How do Freddy and Clara feel about Liza after meeting her, and why do they probably feel this way?

8. What happens to Doolittle in Act 5? Explain how Higgins is responsible.

9. What type of job does Liza propose to do in the final act? Why might she be better at this job than Higgins?

10. What does Higgins mean when he says that "my manners are exactly the same as Pickering's"? In what sense is he right? In what sense is he wrong?

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