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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the bystanders treat Liza when she becomes upset?
(a) They are shocked by her bad language.
(b) They tell her to get lost because she is a worthless flower girl.
(c) They completely ignore her as if she is invisible.
(d) They are sympathetic to her and defend her.

2. What happened to Liza's parents?
(a) She has no parents; they are dead.
(b) Her father is gone and her stepfather beats her.
(c) They are too poor to take care of her, so she lives on her own.
(d) She has no mother, and her father and stepmother kicked her out.

3. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?
(a) Liza never wears pajamas; she sleeps in her underwear.
(b) Liza has no underwear.
(c) Liza has only one change of clothing to her name.
(d) Liza's clothing is torn and dirty.

4. What does Liza want from Higgins at the end of the play?
(a) Money.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Friendship.
(d) True love.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?

2. In the last part of Act 3, Higgins and Pickering take Liza for her final test. Where does this "test" take place?

3. How does Liza feel about the bedroom she'll be staying in?

4. What does Higgins notice about Liza's father, Doolittle?

5. Who is Neppomuck?

(see the answer key)

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