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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Flower Girl selling?
(a) Violets.
(b) Roses.
(c) Poppies.
(d) Daisies.

3. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?
(a) Pitman.
(b) Current Shorthand.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) Gregg.

4. Why is Clara annoyed with her mother?
(a) She gives the Flower Girl too much money.
(b) She doesn't give the Flower Girl any money.
(c) She won't buy any flowers for Clara.
(d) She acts superior to the Flower Girl.

5. Which of the following is among Liza's treasured possessions?
(a) A birdcage.
(b) A book of Shakespeare's plays.
(c) A fashionable dress that she has never worn.
(d) A picture of her deceased mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liza want to do after her bath?

2. How is Henry Higgins described?

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. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

(see the answer key)

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