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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?
(a) Who will ever marry someone like me?
(b) Will I ever be a real lady?
(c) What's to become of me?
(d) Don't you think I'm beautiful?

4. To whom does Liza plan to go for advice the day after she leaves Higgins?
(a) Pickering.
(b) Mrs. Pearce.
(c) Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Her father.

5. What does Higgins say to Liza after she faces up to him and hurts his feelings in Act 4?
(a) There can never be any feeling between the likes of her and the likes of him.
(b) Such an insignificant girl as her can never hurt him.
(c) He always loved her, although she never knew it.
(d) She has wounded him to the core.

6. At the beginning of Act 5, Doolittle's life has changed. What must he now do?
(a) Go at once to America to work for Ezra Wannafeller.
(b) Work hard as a laborer to support Liza.
(c) Give lectures about morality.
(d) Teach phonetics at a new school for the poor.

7. 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) Creditors, asking him to pay his debts.
(b) His relatives, asking for money.
(c) Women, who want to marry him.
(d) The police, who think he is guilty of stealing the money.

8. What does the ambassador's wife think of Liza?
(a) Liza may have a secret.
(b) Liza is a sensation, and must have royal blood.
(c) Liza looks strangely familiar.
(d) Liza could become a diplomat.

9. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She asks whether they will be any good for her now.
(b) She asks him if he plans to burn them as he did with her old clothes.
(c) She asks bitterly whether he finds them beautiful on a poor flower girl.
(d) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.

10. What does Higgins say he will do if Liza doesn't come back?
(a) He will forget her.
(b) He will kill himself.
(c) He doesn't care one way or the other.
(d) He will miss her.

11. What upsets Higgins now that Liza is gone?
(a) He doesn't know what appointments he has.
(b) He doesn't have anyone to find his slippers.
(c) He needs her to cook his breakfast.
(d) He misses the sound of her voice.

12. What does Neppomuck think must be Liza's true background?
(a) She was educated in France.
(b) She is a Hungarian princess.
(c) She is American.
(d) She is a European duchess.

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

14. What does Higgins throw into the fire?
(a) His slippers.
(b) His phonetics books.
(c) Liza's treasured hat.
(d) The ring he bought Liza.

15. What does Liza plan to do for money?
(a) She won't need money because her father will support her.
(b) Open a flower shop.
(c) Work as a teacher of phonetics.
(d) Marry Freddy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Doolittle dressed up at the end of the play?

2. What does Liza realize at the end of Act 5?

3. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?

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

5. What do Higgins and Pickering fear might happen at the end of Act 3 to spoil their bet?

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