Pygmalion Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Pygmalion Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Liza's father's profession?
(a) Trash collector.
(b) Taxicab driver.
(c) Thief.
(d) Bartender.

2. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?
(a) Someone steals it.
(b) The police seize it, saying she has no license to sell flowers.
(c) It is knocked to the ground by Freddy.
(d) It is knocked to the ground by Higgins.

3. What does Higgins say he can do for the Flower Girl (Liza)?
(a) He can make her a Duchess.
(b) He can teach her to speak properly.
(c) He can make her rich.
(d) He can give her a proper education.

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

5. What does Higgins give Liza in Act 2 when she begins to cry?
(a) A meal.
(b) A whack on the bum with a broomstick.
(c) A handkerchief to wipe her nose with.
(d) A shilling for the taxi.

6. How do the bystanders treat Liza when she becomes upset?
(a) They are sympathetic to her and defend her.
(b) They completely ignore her as if she is invisible.
(c) They are shocked by her bad language.
(d) They tell her to get lost because she is a worthless flower girl.

7. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) Their secret desires and dreams.
(b) What their job is.
(c) Their age.
(d) Where they are from.

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

9. What happened to Liza's parents?
(a) She has no mother, and her father and stepmother kicked her out.
(b) She has no parents; they are dead.
(c) They are too poor to take care of her, so she lives on her own.
(d) Her father is gone and her stepfather beats her.

10. Which system does Shaw use to write his Preface?
(a) Gregg.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) Pitman.
(d) Current Shorthand.

11. What does the taxicab driver realize about Liza that humiliates her?
(a) She lives in a slum.
(b) She's never ridden in a taxi before and has no idea how much it costs.
(c) She is really a prostitute.
(d) She doesn't have any money and cannot pay for the taxi.

12. Which of the following is among Liza's treasured possessions?
(a) A book of Shakespeare's plays.
(b) A fashionable dress that she has never worn.
(c) A birdcage.
(d) A picture of her deceased mother.

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

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

15. What is Higgins the author of?
(a) Higgins's Universal Alphabet.
(b) The play that everyone has seen that evening.
(c) Spoken Sanscrit.
(d) Famous books about Shakespeare and Milton.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?

2. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?

3. Which of the following first interests Higgins about Liza?

4. What does Higgins tempt Liza with just as she is about to leave?

5. When Liza comes to see Higgins in Act 2, what does she ask him to do?

(see the answer keys)

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