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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ambassador's wife think of Liza?
(a) Liza is a sensation, and must have royal blood.
(b) Liza looks strangely familiar.
(c) Liza may have a secret.
(d) Liza could become a diplomat.

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

3. Why can't Liza read what Higgins writes?
(a) It is written in French, a language she doesn't know.
(b) He uses a phonetic alphabet.
(c) It is written in a cryptic code.
(d) She is uneducated and has never learned how to read.

4. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She asks him if he plans to burn them as he did with her old clothes.
(b) She asks whether they will be any good for her now.
(c) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.
(d) She asks bitterly whether he finds them beautiful on a poor flower girl.

5. Who is Tito Pagliardini?
(a) A playwright.
(b) An expert in Italian dialects.
(c) An opera singer.
(d) A phonetics expert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Neppomuck?

2. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?

3. Why is Liza so angry with Higgins after the party?

4. What is Liza's father's profession?

5. Which of the following does Higgins call Liza in Act 4 when she bursts out in a rage at him?

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