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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Flower Girl call the Gentleman?
(a) Sir.
(b) Captain.
(c) Governor.
(d) Father.

5. How does Higgins make his money?
(a) He writes plays.
(b) He is an inventor.
(c) He is a professor at Oxford.
(d) He teaches people to speak with a proper accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the Flower Girl?

2. What does the taxicab driver realize about Liza that humiliates her?

3. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?

4. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?

5. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

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