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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Higgins eat while he talks of Liza's future?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) An apple.
(c) Grapes.
(d) A pear.

2. What is NOT one of Henry Higgins's faults?
(a) He is willing to be malicious and cruel in order to get ahead.
(b) He sometimes has tantrums when things go wrong.
(c) He is careless about other people's feelings.
(d) He can be a bully.

3. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?
(a) Sociology, or the study of human social behavior.
(b) Dialects spoken in India.
(c) The psychology of poverty.
(d) American and British slang.

4. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.
(b) It is extremely successful in America, but not in Europe.
(c) It is extremely successful on stage, and he hopes to make a movie of it.
(d) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.

5. Why does the policeman stop Freddy and Liza?
(a) Liza has dropped her handkerchief.
(b) He recognizes Liza as a flower girl.
(c) They are kissing in the street.
(d) He thinks Liza has stolen the jewels.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Shaw, what can people do to get rid of their low-class accents?

2. Where does Liza tell Freddy she is going at the end of Act 1?

3. What becomes of Clara?

4. What does Higgins think of Neppomuck?

5. What does Sweet think of the Pitman system?

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