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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Higgins think is a disgusting sight?
(a) A woman "s'yollin voylets" (selling violets) in the gutter.
(b) A woman shouting for independence.
(c) A woman fetching a man's slippers like a slave.
(d) An ungrateful, snobbish woman.

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

3. Who is delighted with Liza's "small talk" during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) Freddy and Clara.
(b) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(c) Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Higgins and Pickering.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?

2. What does Higgins say about the experiment with Liza?

3. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 3?

4. What is Mrs. Higgins concerned about after meeting Liza at the social visit in Act 3?

5. How is Mrs. Higgins portrayed?

(see the answer key)

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