Pygmalion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Pygmalion Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) Their secret desires and dreams.
(b) Their age.
(c) What their job is.
(d) Where they are from.

2. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful on stage, and he hopes to make a movie of it.
(b) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.
(c) It is extremely successful on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.
(d) It is extremely successful in America, but not in Europe.

3. What does Higgins ask Mrs. Pearce to do with Liza's clothing?
(a) Burn it at once.
(b) Throw it away.
(c) Sew it so that it doesn't look so raggedy.
(d) Wash it in boiling water to kill the mites.

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

5. What bet does Higgins make with Pickering?
(a) That he can pass Liza off as a lady at the ambassador's garden party.
(b) That Liza will marry the Duke and become a Duchess.
(c) That he can seduce Liza and make her fall in love with him in three months.
(d) That he can teach Liza to speak perfect English in three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

2. What is Freddy looking for at the beginning of Act 1?

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

4. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?

5. Where is Act 1 of the play set?

(see the answer key)

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