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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who says, "The secret is not having good manners or bad manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls."
(a) Liza's father.
(b) Liza.
(c) Higgins.
(d) Pickering.

5. What shocking fact does Liza reveal about her father while talking with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) He may have murdered her aunt, but she deserved it.
(b) He was never married to her mother.
(c) He has a chronic drinking problem, but it doesn't bother Liza at all.
(d) He used to beat Liza, but she says she deserved it.

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

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. Which of the following does Higgins call Liza in Act 4 when she bursts out in a rage at him?
(a) She-devil.
(b) Presumptuous insect.
(c) Screaming banshee.
(d) Ungrateful vermin.

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

13. For whom or what does Pickering say the evening has been a real triumph?
(a) For Liza.
(b) For the young science of phonetics.
(c) For humanity.
(d) For Higgins.

14. What does Liza want from Higgins at the end of the play?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Friendship.
(c) True love.
(d) Money.

15. What do Pickering and Higgins say makes Liza a "genius"?
(a) She has a perfect ear and can imitate any sound she hears.
(b) She knows exactly what to say in any social situation.
(c) She can charm anyone she meets instantly.
(d) She can remember all of Higgins's appointments and finds his slippers when he loses them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Higgins concerned about after meeting Liza at the social visit in Act 3?

2. How is Mrs. Higgins portrayed?

3. Who says, "I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!"

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

5. What does Higgins think of Liza at the end of Act 5?

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