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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. Who is Henry Sweet?
(a) The editor of a monthly review.
(b) A phonetics expert whom Shaw admired.
(c) A sweet-tempered professor of language and literature.
(d) A high official who popularized the subject of phonetics.

2. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?
(a) The English are snobs who look down on people who can't speak English.
(b) The English do not bother to learn other European languages.
(c) The English can't speak their own language properly.
(d) The English are poor spellers.

3. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?
(a) Current Shorthand.
(b) Pitman.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) Gregg.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?

3. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?

4. Based on what you read in the Preface, with which of the following statements do you think Shaw would agree?

5. At which university does Sweet teach?

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