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

2. Based on what you read in the Preface, with which of the following statements do you think Shaw would agree?
(a) All great art must be didactic; that is, it should teach people something.
(b) Truly great art should not seek to be commercially successful.
(c) Great art should not seek to teach lessons, but to entertain.
(d) Great art cannot please everyone; there will always be some wiseacres who cannot appreciate it.

3. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?
(a) Nobody agrees with him that phonetics are important.
(b) He angera many people by publishing a libelous article.
(c) He is an ill-natured man.
(d) He scorns everyone who did not agree with him about the importance of phonetics.

4. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?
(a) He thinks it is brilliant and uses it as a model.
(b) He doesn't like it because it is not phonetic.
(c) He never knows of it because he dies before it is invented.
(d) He despises it.

5. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?
(a) They must be trained by a phonetics expert.
(b) People should not try to get rid of their low-class accents; they should be proud of the way they speak.
(c) It cannot be done in real life.
(d) They should imitate people who speak proper English.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which university does Sweet teach?

2. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?

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

4. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

5. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?

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