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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?
(a) Liza's clothing is torn and dirty.
(b) Liza has only one change of clothing to her name.
(c) Liza never wears pajamas; she sleeps in her underwear.
(d) Liza has no underwear.

3. Who is Henry Sweet?
(a) A phonetics expert whom Shaw admired.
(b) A sweet-tempered professor of language and literature.
(c) The editor of a monthly review.
(d) A high official who popularized the subject of phonetics.

4. What do Pickering and Higgins say makes Liza a "genius"?
(a) She can remember all of Higgins's appointments and finds his slippers when he loses them.
(b) She knows exactly what to say in any social situation.
(c) She has a perfect ear and can imitate any sound she hears.
(d) She can charm anyone she meets instantly.

5. Which comment does Shaw make about the realism in his play?
(a) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is obviously not possible in real life.
(b) Realism is the only style that can be respected in the theater.
(c) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is very possible in real life.
(d) Realism is not to be found in the theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of Henry Higgins's faults?

2. What two subjects has Higgins told Liza she must stick to in polite conversation?

3. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?

4. Who is delighted with Liza's "small talk" during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

5. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?

(see the answer key)

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