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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 his mother?
(a) He thinks she is like all other women, a silly fool.
(b) He adores her and finds her the model of all lovable women.
(c) He is annoyed by her nagging.
(d) He puts up with her because he loves her so much.

2. Who says, "I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!"
(a) Higgins.
(b) Clara.
(c) Freddy.
(d) Liza.

3. What does Higgins think of Neppomuck?
(a) He is a fool.
(b) He is boring.
(c) He is very clever, perhaps too clever.
(d) He is a perfect companion for Liza.

4. What compliment does Higgins pay Liza during their discussion after the party?
(a) She's really rather clever--for a woman.
(b) She's not bad-looking.
(c) She's a great cook.
(d) She is a real lady now.

5. Who is delighted with Liza's "small talk" during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) Freddy and Clara.
(b) Mrs. Higgins.
(c) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(d) Higgins and Pickering.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Freddy waiting outside Higgins's house when Liza leaves Higgins?

2. What does Higgins throw into the fire?

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

4. What does Liza say when she sees her father looking so different in Act 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Pickering just as important to Liza's transformation as Higgins, if not more so? What is he able to teach her that Higgins could not?

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

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 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?

7. How does Liza succeed in hurting Higgins in Act 4?

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

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

10. What does Liza say about marriage in Act 4? What does her statement reveal about her morals?

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