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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which best describes Liza's mood when the group first returns home from the party?
(a) Tired and brooding.
(b) Quietly triumphant.
(c) Furious.
(d) Relieved.

2. What is Mrs. Higgins concerned about after meeting Liza at the social visit in Act 3?
(a) What will happen to Liza when the experiment is over.
(b) Whether Liza will be able to pass as a lady.
(c) Whether her son will fall in love with Liza.
(d) How many people Liza will offend with her shocking talk.

3. Who is Neppomuck?
(a) A Hungarian prince.
(b) A former student of Higgins.
(c) The ambassador from Hungary.
(d) A major rival of Higgins.

4. What does Higgins say Liza might do next?
(a) Go back to her father.
(b) Open a jewelry shop.
(c) Become a teacher of phonetics.
(d) Get married.

5. In Act 5, Doolittle reveals that he is miserable because certain people are hounding him. Who are these people, and why are they after Doolitttle?
(a) Women, who want to marry him.
(b) His relatives, asking for money.
(c) The police, who think he is guilty of stealing the money.
(d) Creditors, asking him to pay his debts.

6. Why is Freddy waiting outside Higgins's house when Liza leaves Higgins?
(a) He wants to congratulate her on her success.
(b) To ask her to marry him.
(c) He is hoping she will run away with him.
(d) He watches her window every night.

7. What does Liza forget in Act 5?
(a) How good it feels to curse.
(b) All of her fathers wrongs to her.
(c) How to speak as she did before.
(d) All of Higgins' wrongdoing to her.

8. What does Higgins offer to do for Liza at the end of the play?
(a) Adopt her as his daughter.
(b) Marry her.
(c) Pay for her to go to school.
(d) Get her a flower shop.

9. What does Mrs. Higgins think when her son shows up for a social visit at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) She wants to introduce him to some young ladies eligible for marriage.
(b) She is delighted to see him and she always begs him to socialize more.
(c) She wants him to leave because he offends all her friends.
(d) She is delighted and she brags to all her friends about him.

10. Why does the policeman stop Freddy and Liza?
(a) He thinks Liza has stolen the jewels.
(b) They are kissing in the street.
(c) Liza has dropped her handkerchief.
(d) He recognizes Liza as a flower girl.

11. What does Liza say she doesn't want to be accused of?
(a) Prostitution.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Blackmail.
(d) Fraud.

12. What does Liza do when she looks into the mirror?
(a) Bursts into tears.
(b) Screams in rage.
(c) Sticks her tongue out at herself.
(d) Breaks into a self-satisfied smile.

13. What skill does Neppomuck have?
(a) He can do magic tricks and sleight of hand.
(b) He is a psychic capable of reading the secret thoughts of people.
(c) He is a clever international spy who can read people's body language.
(d) He is an interpreter who knows 32 languages.

14. When Liza meets Freddy in the street at the end of Act 4, where does she say she is going?
(a) To kill herself.
(b) To Buckingham Palace.
(c) Back to the slums where she belongs.
(d) To see her father.

15. Who is delighted with Liza's "small talk" during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) Mrs. Higgins.
(b) Higgins and Pickering.
(c) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(d) Freddy and Clara.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking thing does Liza tell her listeners at the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

2. What does Higgins think is a disgusting sight?

3. What does Freddy tell the officer?

4. What shocking word does Liza use during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

5. What is the difference between a lady and a flower girl?

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