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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Freddy looking for at the beginning of Act 1?
(a) Tickets to the theater.
(b) Someone to love.
(c) A taxicab.
(d) Flowers for his mother.

2. Why does Shaw's attempt to help Sweet fail?
(a) Sweet looks down on the theater as unacademic.
(b) Sweet has no interest in promoting his ideas to the public.
(c) Sweet only writes libelous articles against his fellow academics.
(d) Sweet dies before he can see the play.

3. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?
(a) He thinks she has a natural poetic gift.
(b) He is offended by the curse words she uses, saying it is improper for a lady.
(c) It is disgusting and depressing, and an insult to the English language.
(d) It makes her sound uneducated, but it is quaint and cute.

4. Why is Freddy waiting outside Higgins's house when Liza leaves Higgins?
(a) He watches her window every night.
(b) He is hoping she will run away with him.
(c) He wants to congratulate her on her success.
(d) To ask her to marry him.

5. How old is the Flower Girl?
(a) She is about eighteen or twenty.
(b) She has just turned twenty-one.
(c) She is "sweet sixteen."
(d) She is only fourteen or fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

2. At which university does Sweet teach?

3. What mistake does Liza make in the bathroom?

4. What does Higgins think of Neppomuck?

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

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