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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mrs. Higgins portrayed?
(a) Adoring of her son, her only child.
(b) Elegant and sensible.
(c) Silly and snobbish.
(d) Very controlling of her son.

2. What makes Liza happy at the end of the evening?
(a) Freddy is falling in love with her.
(b) She sold all her flowers.
(c) Higgins gives her a pocketful of change.
(d) Higgins promises to give her lessons.

3. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?
(a) He never knows of it because he dies before it is invented.
(b) He doesn't like it because it is not phonetic.
(c) He thinks it is brilliant and uses it as a model.
(d) He despises it.

4. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) Where they are from.
(b) Their age.
(c) Their secret desires and dreams.
(d) What their job is.

5. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?
(a) Sociologist.
(b) Playwright.
(c) Linguist.
(d) Phoneticist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?

3. What does an upside-down e represent?

4. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?

5. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

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