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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At which university does Sweet teach?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Harvard.
(c) The Imperial Institute in London.
(d) Oxford.

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

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

4. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?
(a) The consonants.
(b) The vowels and some consonants.
(c) The consonants and some vowels.
(d) The vowels.

5. What is Freddy looking for at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Tickets to the theater.
(b) Someone to love.
(c) Flowers for his mother.
(d) A taxicab.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?

2. To what does Higgins compare Liza?

3. How do the bystanders treat Liza when she becomes upset?

4. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?

5. On what basis do some English people despise others?

(see the answer key)

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