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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. When Liza meets Freddy in the street at the end of Act 4, where does she say she is going?
(a) Back to the slums where she belongs.
(b) To kill herself.
(c) To Buckingham Palace.
(d) To see her father.

2. What does Liza do when she looks into the mirror?
(a) Bursts into tears.
(b) Sticks her tongue out at herself.
(c) Breaks into a self-satisfied smile.
(d) Screams in rage.

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

4. What shocking fact does Liza reveal about her father while talking with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) He has a chronic drinking problem, but it doesn't bother Liza at all.
(b) He used to beat Liza, but she says she deserved it.
(c) He may have murdered her aunt, but she deserved it.
(d) He was never married to her mother.

5. Which of the following does Higgins call Liza in Act 4 when she bursts out in a rage at him?
(a) She-devil.
(b) Ungrateful vermin.
(c) Screaming banshee.
(d) Presumptuous insect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Higgins think of Neppomuck?

2. What does Higgins say about the experiment with Liza?

3. Why is Pickering afraid at the party?

4. Why is Liza's father, Doolittle, upset with Higgins?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Higgins conclude about the evening and about their joint project at the beginning of Act 4? What does he say that hurts Liza's feelings?

2. During the social visit with Mrs. Higgins and the Eynsford Hills, what does Liza say that is shocking?

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

4. 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?

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

6. How does Freddy feel about Liza and what does he want from her? How is he different from Higgins?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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