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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Higgins make his money?
(a) He is a professor at Oxford.
(b) He teaches people to speak with a proper accent.
(c) He is an inventor.
(d) He writes plays.

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

4. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?
(a) He is snobbish and rude.
(b) He is an elderly, military type.
(c) He is dressed in a uniform.
(d) He is young and dashing.

5. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?
(a) American and British slang.
(b) Dialects spoken in India.
(c) Sociology, or the study of human social behavior.
(d) The psychology of poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Liza tell Freddy she is going at the end of Act 1?

2. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

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

4. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?

5. What does Sweet send Shaw?

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