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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?
(a) The police seize it, saying she has no license to sell flowers.
(b) Someone steals it.
(c) It is knocked to the ground by Higgins.
(d) It is knocked to the ground by Freddy.

2. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?
(a) A low-class person who cannot speak the language properly.
(b) A professor of English literatures specializing in Shakespeare and Milton.
(c) An energetic enthusiast who supports language reform.
(d) A multilinguist and expert in Latinate languages.

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 become teachers.
(c) To win love.
(d) To meet monarchs such as the Queen of Spain.

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

5. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?
(a) He can teach her to speak properly.
(b) He can make her rich.
(c) He can give her a proper education.
(d) He can make her a Duchess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?

2. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?

3. What are the Pitman and Gregg systems?

4. Why can't Liza read what Higgins writes?

5. What is one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?

(see the answer key)

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