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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 Doolittle promise to do with the money?
(a) Keep it for Liza.
(b) Buy something for his wife.
(c) Save it and use it wisely.
(d) Spend it all immediately on a drinking spree.

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

3. What is Higgins the author of?
(a) Higgins's Universal Alphabet.
(b) The play that everyone has seen that evening.
(c) Spoken Sanscrit.
(d) Famous books about Shakespeare and Milton.

4. When Liza comes to see Higgins in Act 2, what does she ask him to do?
(a) Return the money he took the night before.
(b) Make her into a duchess.
(c) Give her speech lessons.
(d) Help her open a flower shop.

5. What insulting term does Higgins use to describe Liza in Act 2?
(a) Filthy tramp.
(b) Foul-mouthed imp.
(c) Idle-headed fool.
(d) Draggle-tailed guttersnipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Act 1 of the play set?

2. Which of the following describes Liza's home?

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

4. What should happen with the spelling of the English language, according to Shaw?

5. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?

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