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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following describes Liza's home?
(a) A small, shabby room in an alley.
(b) She sleeps in a suburban kitchen with a fireplace.
(c) A dirty shack she shares with her whole family.
(d) She is homeless and sleeps in an alley.

2. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?
(a) To meet monarchs such as the Queen of Spain.
(b) To play the Queen of Spain onstage.
(c) To win love.
(d) To become teachers.

3. What insulting term does Higgins use to describe Liza in Act 2?
(a) Idle-headed fool.
(b) Foul-mouthed imp.
(c) Draggle-tailed guttersnipe.
(d) Filthy tramp.

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

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

6. Which of the following first interests Higgins about Liza?
(a) Her Cockney accent.
(b) Her cleverness.
(c) Her ability to survive on the tough urban streets.
(d) Her exceptional beauty.

7. What city is the setting of Shaw's play?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Paris.
(d) Chicago.

8. Where does Liza tell Freddy she is going at the end of Act 1?
(a) To jump in the river.
(b) To see Higgins.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) Home.

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

10. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(b) It is similar to a question mark.
(c) A vowel of indefinite sound.
(d) An uncommon vowel in English.

11. Why doesn't Sweet's shorthand become popular?
(a) It is very difficult to learn.
(b) It is not legible.
(c) It is not a complete and exact phonetic script.
(d) He does not have the business organization he needs to popularize it.

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

13. Who is Alexander Melville Bell?
(a) A London patriarch.
(b) The inventor of the telephone.
(c) A phonetics expert who invented a phonetic spelling called Visible Speech.
(d) A playwright who was a rival of Shaw's.

14. What does the Flower Girl call the Gentleman?
(a) Father.
(b) Captain.
(c) Governor.
(d) Sir.

15. Who is Henry Sweet?
(a) A sweet-tempered professor of language and literature.
(b) The editor of a monthly review.
(c) A phonetics expert whom Shaw admired.
(d) A high official who popularized the subject of phonetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Higgins's profession?

2. How do the bystanders treat Liza when she becomes upset?

3. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?

4. How does the Flower Girl know Freddy's name?

5. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?

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