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. How does Liza feel about the bedroom she'll be staying in?
(a) She's not used to sleeping in a bed and it seems very strange to her.
(b) She's amazed by its luxurious furnishings.
(c) She says it makes her feel like a duchess.
(d) She thinks it's too good and clean for the likes of her.

2. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?
(a) A low-class person who cannot speak the language properly.
(b) An energetic enthusiast who supports language reform.
(c) A multilinguist and expert in Latinate languages.
(d) A professor of English literatures specializing in Shakespeare and Milton.

3. Which comment does Shaw make about the realism in his play?
(a) Realism is not to be found in the theater.
(b) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is obviously not possible in real life.
(c) A transformation like the one made by the heroine is very possible in real life.
(d) Realism is the only style that can be respected in the theater.

4. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?
(a) The English do not bother to learn other European languages.
(b) The English can't speak their own language properly.
(c) The English are snobs who look down on people who can't speak English.
(d) The English are poor spellers.

5. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?
(a) The inventor of the telephone.
(b) A London patriarch.
(c) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.
(d) A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

2. What is the Flower Girl selling?

3. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?

4. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?

5. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?

(see the answer key)

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