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

2. 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) Higgins.
(b) Liza's father.
(c) Pickering.
(d) Liza.

3. How is Mrs. Higgins portrayed?
(a) Very controlling of her son.
(b) Elegant and sensible.
(c) Adoring of her son, her only child.
(d) Silly and snobbish.

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

5. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?
(a) Who will ever marry someone like me?
(b) What's to become of me?
(c) Don't you think I'm beautiful?
(d) Will I ever be a real lady?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Higgins say to Liza after she faces up to him and hurts his feelings in Act 4?

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

3. Which of the following does Higgins call Liza in Act 4 when she bursts out in a rage at him?

4. What does Liza do when she looks into the mirror?

5. Why is Liza's father, Doolittle, upset with Higgins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Liza say about marriage in Act 4? What does her statement reveal about her morals?

2. Why is Liza so upset in Act 4? What does she want to know?

3. Why is Doolittle unhappy with his new status? What is ironic about this?

4. Why doesn't Higgins want Liza to fetch his slippers for him and perform other like tasks?

5. What do Neppomuck and the ambassador's wife conclude about Liza? What does it suggest about class differences and about high society that Liza is so easily able to fool everyone at the party?

6. Does Higgins really not care about Liza? How can you tell? What comments and reactions on Higgins's part show that he is growing fond of Eliza?

7. How does Liza finally come into her own as a woman at the end of Act 5?

8. How do Freddy and Clara feel about Liza after meeting her, and why do they probably feel this way?

9. What does Higgins mean when he says that people are really "savages"?

10. What does Liza ultimately think of the party and of her success at the end of Act 3?

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