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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Higgins compare Liza?
(a) The Queen of Sheba.
(b) A diamond in the rough.
(c) A squashed cabbage-leaf.
(d) A flower in the mud.

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

3. To Shaw, what is the main advantage of Henry Sweet's "Current Shorthand"?
(a) It can express every sound in the language perfectly.
(b) It can be used as a kind of secret code or cryptogram.
(c) It can be used on postcards, where there is limited space to write.
(d) Everyone is familiar with it, as it is widely taught in secretarial schools.

4. What makes Liza happy at the end of the evening?
(a) Higgins gives her a pocketful of change.
(b) Freddy is falling in love with her.
(c) Higgins promises to give her lessons.
(d) She sold all her flowers.

5. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(b) A vowel of indefinite sound.
(c) An uncommon vowel in English.
(d) It is similar to a question mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?

2. Which of the following is among Liza's treasured possessions?

3. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?

4. How old is the Flower Girl?

5. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?

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