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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Great art cannot please everyone; there will always be some wiseacres who cannot appreciate it.
(c) Great art should not seek to teach lessons, but to entertain.
(d) Truly great art should not seek to be commercially successful.

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

3. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?
(a) Spying on Liza.
(b) Taking notes.
(c) Hiding from the police.
(d) Waiting for a taxicab.

4. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?
(a) A phonetician who, like Higgins, greatly admired Milton.
(b) A portrait painter who, like Higgins, loved phonetics.
(c) An expert in shorthand who, like Higgins, lived in England.
(d) A professor at Oxford who, like Higgins, had a fiery temper.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Flower Girl selling?

5. What does an upside-down e represent?

(see the answer key)

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