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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Higgins compare Liza?
(a) The Queen of Sheba.
(b) A squashed cabbage-leaf.
(c) A diamond in the rough.
(d) A flower in the mud.

2. What does Higgins say about women?
(a) He thinks men are superior to women and should tell them what to do.
(b) He thinks all women are silly creatures, like animals.
(c) He has a hard time controlling himself around beautiful women.
(d) He's happier without them and is a confirmed bachelor.

3. Where is Act 1 of the play set?
(a) At a train station.
(b) At a theater.
(c) In front of a church.
(d) In a park.

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

5. Why doesHenry Sweet not become more prominent?
(a) He scorns everyone who did not agree with him about the importance of phonetics.
(b) Nobody agrees with him that phonetics are important.
(c) He angera many people by publishing a libelous article.
(d) He is an ill-natured man.

Short Answer Questions

1. While talking with the Eynsford Hills at the social visit in Act 3, what does Higgins say all people really are?

2. Of what does Mrs. Pearce warn Higgins?

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

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

5. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?

(see the answer key)

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