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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 Mrs. Higgins think when her son shows up for a social visit at the beginning of Act 3?
(a) She is delighted to see him and she always begs him to socialize more.
(b) She wants him to leave because he offends all her friends.
(c) She wants to introduce him to some young ladies eligible for marriage.
(d) She is delighted and she brags to all her friends about him.

2. What does Higgins say about the experiment with Liza?
(a) It is dreadfully boring and he thanks God it's over.
(b) It is the most significant experiment of his entire career.
(c) He is so nervous about it that he's glad it's finally over.
(d) It will make him famous if anyone finds out--which they won't.

3. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She asks him if he plans to burn them as he did with her old clothes.
(b) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.
(c) She asks whether they will be any good for her now.
(d) She asks bitterly whether he finds them beautiful on a poor flower girl.

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

5. What does Liza do when she looks into the mirror?
(a) Screams in rage.
(b) Breaks into a self-satisfied smile.
(c) Bursts into tears.
(d) Sticks her tongue out at herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last part of Act 3, Higgins and Pickering take Liza for her final test. Where does this "test" take place?

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

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

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

5. What does Liza plan to do for money?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Doolittle in Act 5? Explain how Higgins is responsible.

3. 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?

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

5. How does Freddy feel about Liza and what does he want from her? How is he different from Higgins?

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

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

8. What does Higgins conclude about the evening and about their joint project at the beginning of Act 4? What does he say that hurts Liza's feelings?

9. During the social visit with Mrs. Higgins and the Eynsford Hills, what does Liza say that is shocking?

10. Why is Pickering just as important to Liza's transformation as Higgins, if not more so? What is he able to teach her that Higgins could not?

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