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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which elements of the English alphabet have no agreed speech value?
(a) The consonants and some vowels.
(b) The consonants.
(c) The vowels.
(d) The vowels and some consonants.

2. What does Higgins ask Mrs. Pearce to do with Liza's clothing?
(a) Wash it in boiling water to kill the mites.
(b) Throw it away.
(c) Burn it at once.
(d) Sew it so that it doesn't look so raggedy.

3. What does Sweet send Shaw?
(a) Letters.
(b) Books.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Money.

4. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?
(a) One hundred pounds.
(b) Five pounds.
(c) Fifty pounds.
(d) Ten pounds.

5. For how long will Liza stay with Higgins as his pupil?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) Six weeks.

6. To what does Higgins compare Liza?
(a) A flower in the mud.
(b) A diamond in the rough.
(c) A squashed cabbage-leaf.
(d) The Queen of Sheba.

7. How does Liza feel about the bedroom she'll be staying in?
(a) She says it makes her feel like a duchess.
(b) She's not used to sleeping in a bed and it seems very strange to her.
(c) She's amazed by its luxurious furnishings.
(d) She thinks it's too good and clean for the likes of her.

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

9. Who is Robert Bridges and what does he have in common with Higgins?
(a) A professor at Oxford who, like Higgins, had a fiery temper.
(b) A portrait painter who, like Higgins, loved phonetics.
(c) A phonetician who, like Higgins, greatly admired Milton.
(d) An expert in shorthand who, like Higgins, lived in England.

10. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?
(a) He is young and dashing.
(b) He is snobbish and rude.
(c) He is an elderly, military type.
(d) He is dressed in a uniform.

11. What should happen with the English alphabet, according to Shaw?
(a) It should be the same as the Spanish alphabet.
(b) It should be increased to the size of the Russian alphabet.
(c) It should be completely modified to conform with classical Greek letters.
(d) It should be simplified to include only the most essential letters.

12. What should happen with the spelling of the English language, according to Shaw?
(a) Standardized spelling should disregarded as unnecessary; people should simply sound out words and apply the approximate phonetic spelling.
(b) It should be made as phonetic as Spanish.
(c) It should be simplified to get rid of silent letters.
(d) It should be emphasized more in school so that everyone can learn to spell correctly.

13. At the end of Act 2, Higgins is shown teaching Liza a lesson. What specifically does Higgins teach Liza?
(a) How to say her alphabet properly.
(b) How to hold a cup of tea.
(c) How to behave like a perfect lady.
(d) How to read the works of Shakespeare and Milton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the taxicab driver realize about Liza that humiliates her?

2. At which university does Sweet teach?

3. What is a problem with the English language, according to Shaw?

4. What can Higgins guess about people?

5. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?

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