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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What should happen with the spelling of the English language, according to Shaw?
(a) It should be emphasized more in school so that everyone can learn to spell correctly.
(b) It should be made as phonetic as Spanish.
(c) It should be simplified to get rid of silent letters.
(d) Standardized spelling should disregarded as unnecessary; people should simply sound out words and apply the approximate phonetic spelling.

3. Who is Tito Pagliardini?
(a) A phonetics expert.
(b) An expert in Italian dialects.
(c) A playwright.
(d) An opera singer.

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 London patriarch.
(d) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?

3. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?

4. Where does Liza tell Freddy she is going at the end of Act 1?

5. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?

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