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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the Flower Girl selling?
(a) Roses.
(b) Poppies.
(c) Violets.
(d) Daisies.
2. What does Shaw try to do for Sweet?
(a) Involve him in the theater.
(b) Dedicate the play Pygmalion to him.
(c) Get him a teaching position.
(d) Help him get an article published.
3. What can Higgins guess about people?
(a) What their job is.
(b) Their age.
(c) Where they are from.
(d) Their secret desires and dreams.
4. Who is Tito Pagliardini?
(a) An expert in Italian dialects.
(b) An opera singer.
(c) A playwright.
(d) A phonetics expert.
5. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?
(a) Chicago.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) Paris.
6. What is one of Shaw's purposes in writing this play?
(a) To entertain people and make them forget their worries for another day.
(b) To encourage people to value all types of accents in English.
(c) To let people know of the existence of phoneticians and how important they are.
(d) To make people aware of the social inequalities in England.
7. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?
(a) Linguist.
(b) Sociologist.
(c) Playwright.
(d) Phoneticist.
8. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?
(a) She heard the women call him by that name.
(b) They are secretly lovers.
(c) She doesn't; she calls all young men "Freddy" or "Charlie."
(d) She has seen him somewhere before.
9. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?
(a) A London patriarch.
(b) A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.
(c) The inventor of the telephone.
(d) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.
10. How does Higgins make his money?
(a) He is a professor at Oxford.
(b) He is an inventor.
(c) He writes plays.
(d) He teaches people to speak with a proper accent.
11. Which of the following is among Liza's treasured possessions?
(a) A book of Shakespeare's plays.
(b) A picture of her deceased mother.
(c) A birdcage.
(d) A fashionable dress that she has never worn.
12. What should happen with the English alphabet, according to Shaw?
(a) It should be the same as the Spanish alphabet.
(b) It should be simplified to include only the most essential letters.
(c) It should be increased to the size of the Russian alphabet.
(d) It should be completely modified to conform with classical Greek letters.
13. What insulting term does Higgins use to describe Liza in Act 2?
(a) Foul-mouthed imp.
(b) Draggle-tailed guttersnipe.
(c) Filthy tramp.
(d) Idle-headed fool.
14. Of what does Mrs. Pearce warn Higgins?
(a) She warns him to be polite and not swear around Liza.
(b) She warns him not to take sexual advantage of Liza.
(c) She warns him that Liza may be dishonest and should be watched carefully.
(d) She warns him that Liza's father may come for her.
15. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?
(a) Around 1890.
(b) In the 1850s.
(c) Around 1910.
(d) In the 1870s.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the end of Act 2, Higgins is shown teaching Liza a lesson. What specifically does Higgins teach Liza?
2. What does Higgins tempt Liza with just as she is about to leave?
3. How does Liza feel about the bedroom she'll be staying in?
4. What type of person does Shaw indicate is the hero of Pygmalion?
5. What does an upside-down e represent?
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