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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Higgins the author of?
(a) Famous books about Shakespeare and Milton.
(b) The play that everyone has seen that evening.
(c) Higgins's Universal Alphabet.
(d) Spoken Sanscrit.

2. What should happen with the English alphabet, according to Shaw?
(a) It should be the same as the Spanish alphabet.
(b) It should be completely modified to conform with classical Greek letters.
(c) It should be simplified to include only the most essential letters.
(d) It should be increased to the size of the Russian alphabet.

3. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?
(a) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.
(b) A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.
(c) The inventor of the telephone.
(d) A London patriarch.

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

5. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?
(a) He thinks she has a natural poetic gift.
(b) It makes her sound uneducated, but it is quaint and cute.
(c) It is disgusting and depressing, and an insult to the English language.
(d) He is offended by the curse words she uses, saying it is improper for a lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Higgins guess about people?

2. At which university does Sweet teach?

3. Which of the following describes Liza's home?

4. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

5. What should happen with the spelling of the English language, according to Shaw?

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