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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Doolittle dressed up at the end of the play?
(a) For Liza and Freddy's wedding.
(b) To make a speech.
(c) To impress Liza and Higgins.
(d) For his wedding.

2. Who says, "I havnt any small talk. If people would only be frank and say what they really think!"
(a) Liza.
(b) Higgins.
(c) Clara.
(d) Freddy.

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

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

5. In the last part of Act 3, Higgins and Pickering take Liza for her final test. Where does this "test" take place?
(a) At a Beethoven concert.
(b) At the prestigious Ascot horse races.
(c) At a grand ball in Buckingham Palace.
(d) At a party at the Embassy.

6. What does Higgins think of Liza at the end of Act 5?
(a) She's the loveliest girl he's ever seen.
(b) She's an ignorant fool.
(c) She is a tower of strength.
(d) She's a millstone around his neck.

7. Why is Liza's father, Doolittle, upset with Higgins?
(a) Higgins has made him lose all his money.
(b) Higgins has made him a respectable gentleman.
(c) He thinks Higgins has kicked Liza out.
(d) He thinks Higgins has taken advantage of Liza.

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

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

10. About how much do Liza's clothes cost?
(a) 1200 pounds.
(b) 200 pounds.
(c) 1000 pounds
(d) 500 pounds.

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

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

13. 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) He always loved her, although she never knew it.
(c) Such an insignificant girl as her can never hurt him.
(d) She has wounded him to the core.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom do Higgins and Pickering call on the phone when they find Liza missing?

3. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?

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

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

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