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

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

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

4. On what basis do some English people despise others?
(a) Whether they are foreign or native-born citizens.
(b) Their accents or dialects of English.
(c) Their socioeconomic class.
(d) Their level of education.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?

2. What does Sweet send Shaw?

3. What is a problem with the English language, according to Shaw?

4. Who is Tito Pagliardini?

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

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