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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) Get him a teaching position.
(d) Involve him in the theater.

2. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?
(a) Sociologist.
(b) Linguist.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Phoneticist.

3. Who is in Higgins's laboratory with Higgins at the beginning of Act 2?
(a) Nobody; Higgins is alone.
(b) Pickering.
(c) Mrs. Pearce.
(d) Liza Doolittle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?

2. On what basis do some English people despise others?

3. What happened to Liza's parents?

4. Which of the following does NOT describe the Flower Girl's appearance?

5. What is the strange man (Higgins) doing behind the pillar?

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