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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 does Higgins promise to treat Liza if she comes back to him?
(a) The same as always.
(b) With respect and care.
(c) With all his love.
(d) Like a duchess.

2. What does Liza say when she sees her father looking so different in Act 5?
(a) Garn!
(b) No!
(c) E-e-e-e-yow-a!
(d) A-a-a-a-ah-ow-ooh!

3. Why does the policeman stop Freddy and Liza?
(a) He thinks Liza has stolen the jewels.
(b) They are kissing in the street.
(c) He recognizes Liza as a flower girl.
(d) Liza has dropped her handkerchief.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two subjects has Higgins told Liza she must stick to in polite conversation?

2. What does Liza plan to do for money?

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

4. Whom do Higgins and Pickering go see when they discover Liza is missing?

5. What is the difference between a lady and a flower girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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