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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bet does Higgins make with Pickering?
(a) That he can seduce Liza and make her fall in love with him in three months.
(b) That he can teach Liza to speak perfect English in three weeks.
(c) That Liza will marry the Duke and become a Duchess.
(d) That he can pass Liza off as a lady at the ambassador's garden party.

2. How old is the Flower Girl?
(a) She is "sweet sixteen."
(b) She has just turned twenty-one.
(c) She is about eighteen or twenty.
(d) She is only fourteen or fifteen.

3. What is Liza's father's profession?
(a) Taxicab driver.
(b) Thief.
(c) Trash collector.
(d) Bartender.

4. What is the Flower Girl selling?
(a) Poppies.
(b) Violets.
(c) Roses.
(d) Daisies.

5. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.
(b) It is extremely successful in America, but not in Europe.
(c) It is extremely successful on stage, and he hopes to make a movie of it.
(d) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking thing does Liza tell her listeners at the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

2. What does Liza think about the party?

3. Where is Act 1 of the play set?

4. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

5. What insulting term does Higgins use to describe Liza in Act 2?

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