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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface to Pygmalion. A Professor of Phonetics.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sweet send Shaw?
(a) Postcards.
(b) Letters.
(c) Books.
(d) Money.

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

4. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?
(a) Around 1890.
(b) In the 1870s.
(c) Around 1910.
(d) In the 1850s.

5. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?
(a) An expert in shorthand who, like Higgins, lived in England.
(b) A portrait painter who, like Higgins, loved phonetics.
(c) A phonetician who, like Higgins, greatly admired Milton.
(d) A professor at Oxford who, like Higgins, had a fiery temper.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?

2. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?

3. To Shaw, what is the main advantage of Henry Sweet's "Current Shorthand"?

4. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?

5. What should happen with the spelling of the English language, according to Shaw?

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