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

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

3. What compliment does Higgins pay Liza during their discussion after the party?
(a) She's a great cook.
(b) She is a real lady now.
(c) She's not bad-looking.
(d) She's really rather clever--for a woman.

4. What does Higgins say to Liza after she faces up to him and hurts his feelings in Act 4?
(a) She has wounded him to the core.
(b) Such an insignificant girl as her can never hurt him.
(c) There can never be any feeling between the likes of her and the likes of him.
(d) He always loved her, although she never knew it.

5. What does Higgins eat while he talks of Liza's future?
(a) An apple.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Grapes.
(d) A pear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main reason Higgins brings Liza to the social visit at the beginning of Act 3?

2. What is the setting at the beginning of Act 3?

3. What does Liza throw at Higgins when they return home after the party?

4. What does Neppomuck think must be Liza's true background?

5. Who is Neppomuck?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. Describe Mrs. Higgins and her relationship with her son.

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

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

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