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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 one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?
(a) To make people aware of the social inequalities in England.
(b) To let people know of the existence of phoneticians and how important they are.
(c) To encourage people to value all types of accents in English.
(d) To entertain people and make them forget their worries for another day.

2. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?
(a) It is knocked to the ground by Freddy.
(b) It is knocked to the ground by Higgins.
(c) The police seize it, saying she has no license to sell flowers.
(d) Someone steals it.

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

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

5. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) A vowel of indefinite sound.
(b) An uncommon vowel in English.
(c) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(d) It is similar to a question mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?

2. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?

3. What is Higgins the author of?

4. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?

5. At which university does Sweet teach?

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