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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The ambassador's wife asks too many questions.
(d) Liza makes a mistake when she says a shocking word.

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

4. What does Higgins eat while he talks of Liza's future?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) A pear.
(c) Grapes.
(d) An apple.

5. What does Liza throw at Higgins when they return home after the party?
(a) The ring he bought her.
(b) A book about his precious alphabet.
(c) His slippers.
(d) All her jewelry.

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

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

8. What does Liza think about the party?
(a) She thinks she can never fit in with all these people.
(b) She agrees with Higgins that high society parties are dreadfully boring.
(c) She is delighted that she is causing such a sensation.
(d) She is dazzled by all the glamour and glitz and never wants it to end.

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

10. What does Pickering want Liza to do at the end of Act 5?
(a) Forgive Higgins and come back.
(b) Open a flower shop.
(c) Marry Freddy and be happy.
(d) Go back to her father where she belongs.

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

12. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.
(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 asks whether they will be any good for her now.

13. 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.

14. What does Freddy tell the officer?
(a) They are engaged.
(b) Liza is a lady.
(c) To arrest him instead.
(d) Liza is his sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Neppomuck?

3. Which best describes Liza's mood when the group first returns home from the party?

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

5. For whom or what does Pickering say the evening has been a real triumph?

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