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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?
(a) It is not legible.
(b) It is very difficult to learn.
(c) He does not have the business organization he needs to popularize it.
(d) It is not a complete and exact phonetic script.

3. Which of the following does NOT describe the Flower Girl's appearance?
(a) She is wearing a black sailor hat.
(b) She is very clean and neat.
(c) She has bad teeth.
(d) Her hair needs to be brushed.

4. Who is Tito Pagliardini?
(a) A playwright.
(b) An expert in Italian dialects.
(c) An opera singer.
(d) A phonetics expert.

5. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.
(b) It is extremely successful on stage, and he hopes to make a movie of it.
(c) It is extremely successful in America, but not in Europe.
(d) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Flower Girl selling?

2. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?

3. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?

4. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?

5. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?

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