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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Liza comes to see Higgins in Act 2, what does she ask him to do?
(a) Make her into a duchess.
(b) Help her open a flower shop.
(c) Give her speech lessons.
(d) Return the money he took the night before.

2. What does Higgins think of the way the Flower Girl speaks?
(a) It makes her sound uneducated, but it is quaint and cute.
(b) He thinks she has a natural poetic gift.
(c) It is disgusting and depressing, and an insult to the English language.
(d) He is offended by the curse words she uses, saying it is improper for a lady.

3. How much money does Doolittle demand from Higgins in exchange for his daughter?
(a) Five pounds.
(b) Ten pounds.
(c) One hundred pounds.
(d) Fifty pounds.

4. What does an upside-down e represent?
(a) It is similar to a question mark.
(b) It is a symbol of the uselessnesss of alphabets.
(c) A vowel of indefinite sound.
(d) An uncommon vowel in English.

5. What does the Gentleman (Pickering) study?
(a) Sociology, or the study of human social behavior.
(b) American and British slang.
(c) The psychology of poverty.
(d) Dialects spoken in India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes the Gentleman (later identified as Pickering)?

2. What happens to the Flower Girl's basket?

3. Who is Tito Pagliardini?

4. When does Shaw first become interested in the subject of phonetics?

5. Which of the following describes Liza's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Flower Girl.

2. What does the Flower Girl do at the end of Act 1 that shows she has a sense of pride and dignity about her?

3. Why does Liza's father come to see Higgins?

4. What does Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce, think about the plan? Who seems to have a more sensible view of the situation, Higgins or Mrs. Pearce?

5. Why does the English language need to be reformed, according to Shaw?

6. Describe Henry Sweet.

7. Describe Higgins's laboratory. What does it reveal about his character?

8. How does Higgins feel about women?

9. Who are Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, and Henry Sweet, and why are they heroes to Shaw?

10. What does Liza likely mean when she says "I'm a good girl, I am"? Why does she say this?

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