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

2. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?
(a) Fifty pounds.
(b) Five pounds.
(c) Ten pounds.
(d) One hundred pounds.

3. Who is Henry Sweet?
(a) A phonetics expert whom Shaw admired.
(b) A sweet-tempered professor of language and literature.
(c) A high official who popularized the subject of phonetics.
(d) The editor of a monthly review.

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

5. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?
(a) The vowels.
(b) The vowels and some consonants.
(c) The consonants.
(d) The consonants and some vowels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following first interests Higgins about Liza?

2. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?

3. What does Higgins tempt Liza with just as she is about to leave?

4. What mistake does Liza make in the bathroom?

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

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