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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which best describes the first scene?
(a) Early morning, just before dawn.
(b) A hot and sweltering day.
(c) A cold, wintry evening.
(d) A dark and rainy night.

3. What is Liza afraid will kill her?
(a) The draft from the window.
(b) The electric lights.
(c) A bath.
(d) Her father, if he finds out where she is.

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

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

6. What makes Liza happy at the end of the evening?
(a) Higgins promises to give her lessons.
(b) Higgins gives her a pocketful of change.
(c) Freddy is falling in love with her.
(d) She sold all her flowers.

7. At which university does Sweet teach?
(a) The Imperial Institute in London.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Cambridge.

8. Of what does Mrs. Pearce warn Higgins?
(a) She warns him not to take sexual advantage of Liza.
(b) She warns him that Liza may be dishonest and should be watched carefully.
(c) She warns him that Liza's father may come for her.
(d) She warns him to be polite and not swear around Liza.

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

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

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

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

13. Which character in Pygmalion is based in part on Henry Sweet?
(a) Neppomuck.
(b) Doolittle.
(c) Pickering.
(d) Higgins.

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

15. Which is true of Pygmalion at the time Shaw wrote his Preface?
(a) It is extremely successful in Europe, and he hopes to make it so in America.
(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 on stage and screen all over North America and Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Shaw identify as a problem among his fellow English?

2. What is Higgins the author of?

3. What is Liza's father's profession?

4. What is one example Shaw gives of when people might want to change their accents?

5. To Shaw, what is the main advantage of Henry Sweet's "Current Shorthand"?

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