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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 are the Pitman and Gregg systems?
(a) Early dictaphones.
(b) Successful business organizations.
(c) Phonetic alphabets.
(d) Popular systems of shorthand.

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

3. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?
(a) To play the Queen of Spain onstage.
(b) To win love.
(c) To become teachers.
(d) To meet monarchs such as the Queen of Spain.

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

5. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.
(b) It is extremely successful on stage, and he hopes to make a movie of it.
(c) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.
(d) It is extremely successful in America, but not in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which university does Sweet teach?

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

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

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

5. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?

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