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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 Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She asks him if he plans to burn them as he did with her old clothes.
(b) She asks whether they will be any good for her now.
(c) She asks bitterly whether he finds them beautiful on a poor flower girl.
(d) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.

2. Whom do Higgins and Pickering go see when they discover Liza is missing?
(a) Liza's father.
(b) The police.
(c) Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.

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

4. What shocking thing does Liza tell her listeners at the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) She believes her aunt was murdered over a hat.
(b) She is in love with Colonel Pickering.
(c) Her aunt caught diphtheria and died a horrible death.
(d) She is in love with Freddy.

5. Whom do Higgins and Pickering call on the phone when they find Liza missing?
(a) The police.
(b) Mrs. Higgins.
(c) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(d) Liza's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking word does Liza use during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

2. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?

3. What does Higgins say Liza might do next?

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

5. What does Liza want from Higgins at the end of the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What does Pickering think about the evening? How do his feelings differ from Higgins's? How does he succeed in hurting Liza as well?

5. Describe Mrs. Higgins and her relationship with her son.

6. 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?

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

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

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

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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