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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Higgins promise to treat Liza if she comes back to him?
(a) With all his love.
(b) The same as always.
(c) Like a duchess.
(d) With respect and care.

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

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

4. Why is Pickering afraid at the party?
(a) Liza is playing the part too well.
(b) Neppomuck is on the verge of discovering the truth about Liza.
(c) Liza makes a mistake when she says a shocking word.
(d) The ambassador's wife asks too many questions.

5. What shocking thing does Liza tell her listeners at the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) She is in love with Freddy.
(b) Her aunt caught diphtheria and died a horrible death.
(c) She is in love with Colonel Pickering.
(d) She believes her aunt was murdered over a hat.

6. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) The Embassy.
(b) Mrs. Higgins's drawing room.
(c) Buckingham Palace.
(d) Mrs. Eynsford Hill's parlor.

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

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

9. What does Higgins think is a disgusting sight?
(a) A woman shouting for independence.
(b) A woman "s'yollin voylets" (selling violets) in the gutter.
(c) An ungrateful, snobbish woman.
(d) A woman fetching a man's slippers like a slave.

10. Who comes looking for Higgins at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) The police, to ask him questions.
(b) Freddy, to ask Liza's hand in marriage.
(c) Liza's father, Doolittle.
(d) Liza, demanding an apology.

11. What does Liza realize at the end of Act 5?
(a) She's truly and deeply in love with Higgins.
(b) She's truly and deeply in love with Freddy.
(c) She's no better than she ever was.
(d) She's every bit as good as Higgins.

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

13. Where is Liza at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) With Freddy.
(b) With Mrs. Higgins.
(c) Back in Covent Garden, wandering in the vegetable market.
(d) With her father.

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

15. What does Higgins think of his mother?
(a) He adores her and finds her the model of all lovable women.
(b) He thinks she is like all other women, a silly fool.
(c) He is annoyed by her nagging.
(d) He puts up with her because he loves her so much.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom do Higgins and Pickering go see when they discover Liza is missing?

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

3. About how much do Liza's clothes cost?

4. Why does the policeman stop Freddy and Liza?

5. To whom does Liza plan to go for advice the day after she leaves Higgins?

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