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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. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?
(a) Get him a teaching position.
(b) Dedicate the play Pygmalion to him.
(c) Help him get an article published.
(d) Involve him in the theater.

2. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?
(a) Sweet dies before he can see the play.
(b) Sweet only writes libelous articles against his fellow academics.
(c) Sweet has no interest in promoting his ideas to the public.
(d) Sweet looks down on the theater as unacademic.

3. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?
(a) Doolittle.
(b) Higgins.
(c) Neppomuck.
(d) Pickering.

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

5. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) An uncommon vowel in English.
(b) A vowel of indefinite sound.
(c) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(d) It is similar to a question mark.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

4. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?

5. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?

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