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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) What their job is.
(b) Their age.
(c) Where they are from.
(d) Their secret desires and dreams.

3. What does Sweet send Shaw?
(a) Money.
(b) Letters.
(c) Books.
(d) Postcards.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?

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

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

4. Why does Liza become upset with Higgins?

5. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?

(see the answer key)

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