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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 does Higgins think of Liza at the end of Act 5?
(a) She is a tower of strength.
(b) She's an ignorant fool.
(c) She's a millstone around his neck.
(d) She's the loveliest girl he's ever seen.

2. What does Liza say she doesn't want to be accused of?
(a) Stealing.
(b) Fraud.
(c) Blackmail.
(d) Prostitution.

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

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

5. What is the difference between a lady and a flower girl?
(a) How she's treated.
(b) How she behaves.
(c) How she speaks.
(d) Her moral values.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "The secret is not having good manners or bad manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls."

2. What two subjects has Higgins told Liza she must stick to in polite conversation?

3. What does Higgins eat while he talks of Liza's future?

4. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?

5. What do Higgins and Pickering fear might happen at the end of Act 3 to spoil their bet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. How does Higgins behave during the social visit? Explain. What does this "gentleman's" ungentlemanly behavior suggest about class differences?

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. What does Higgins mean when he says that people are really "savages"?

8. What does Liza ultimately think of the party and of her success at the end of Act 3?

9. Why is Liza so upset in Act 4? What does she want to know?

10. Describe Neppomuck. Who is he, and what does Higgins think of him?

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