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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What two subjects has Higgins told Liza she must stick to in polite conversation?
(a) The weather and politics.
(b) The weather and people's health.
(c) Family and friends.
(d) Hobbies and sports.

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

4. Whom do Higgins and Pickering go see when they discover Liza is missing?
(a) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(b) The police.
(c) Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Liza's father.

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

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

7. Whom do Higgins and Pickering call on the phone when they find Liza missing?
(a) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
(b) The police.
(c) Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Liza's father.

8. What does Liza say when she sees her father looking so different in Act 5?
(a) Garn!
(b) E-e-e-e-yow-a!
(c) No!
(d) A-a-a-a-ah-ow-ooh!

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

10. 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 Colonel Pickering.
(b) She is in love with Freddy.
(c) Her aunt caught diphtheria and died a horrible death.
(d) She believes her aunt was murdered over a hat.

11. 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.

12. 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 wants him to leave because he offends all her friends.
(c) She is delighted and she brags to all her friends about him.
(d) She is delighted to see him and she always begs him to socialize more.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liza want from Higgins at the end of the play?

2. What shocking fact does Liza reveal about her father while talking with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

3. What does Higgins say Liza might do next?

4. What do Pickering and Higgins say makes Liza a "genius"?

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

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