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

2. What surprises Mrs. Pearce?
(a) Liza's clothing is torn and dirty.
(b) Liza has no underwear.
(c) Liza has only one change of clothing to her name.
(d) Liza never wears pajamas; she sleeps in her underwear.

3. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?
(a) A portrait painter who, like Higgins, loved phonetics.
(b) An expert in shorthand who, like Higgins, lived in England.
(c) A phonetician who, like Higgins, greatly admired Milton.
(d) A professor at Oxford who, like Higgins, had a fiery temper.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sweet send Shaw?

2. For how long will Liza stay with Higgins as his pupil?

3. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

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

5. Where is Act 1 of the play set?

(see the answer key)

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