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

2. To whom does Liza plan to go for advice the day after she leaves Higgins?
(a) Her father.
(b) Mrs. Higgins.
(c) Pickering.
(d) Mrs. Pearce.

3. At the beginning of Act 5, Doolittle's life has changed. What must he now do?
(a) Work hard as a laborer to support Liza.
(b) Teach phonetics at a new school for the poor.
(c) Go at once to America to work for Ezra Wannafeller.
(d) Give lectures about morality.

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

5. 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) Get her a flower shop.
(d) Adopt her as his daughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What upsets Higgins now that Liza is gone?

3. What does Higgins eat while he talks of Liza's future?

4. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?

5. What does Liza think about the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What type of job does Liza propose to do in the final act? Why might she be better at this job than Higgins?

3. What does Higgins mean when he says that "my manners are exactly the same as Pickering's"? In what sense is he right? In what sense is he wrong?

4. 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?

5. Describe Neppomuck. Who is he, and what does Higgins think of him?

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

7. How does Liza succeed in hurting Higgins in Act 4?

8. What does Pickering think about the evening? How do his feelings differ from Higgins's? How does he succeed in hurting Liza as well?

9. How does Higgins behave during the social visit? Explain. What does this "gentleman's" ungentlemanly behavior suggest about class differences?

10. What does Higgins think Liza should do with her future? Does he really give it any thought?

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