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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) Get married.
(b) Open a jewelry shop.
(c) Go back to her father.
(d) Become a teacher of phonetics.

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

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

4. Why is Pickering afraid at the party?
(a) Neppomuck is on the verge of discovering the truth about Liza.
(b) The ambassador's wife asks too many questions.
(c) Liza is playing the part too well.
(d) Liza makes a mistake when she says a shocking word.

5. What does Higgins think of his mother?
(a) He thinks she is like all other women, a silly fool.
(b) He adores her and finds her the model of all lovable women.
(c) He puts up with her because he loves her so much.
(d) He is annoyed by her nagging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Freddy tell the officer?

2. What is striking about Neppomuck's appearance?

3. To whom does Liza plan to go for advice the day after she leaves Higgins?

4. What does Mrs. Higgins think when her son shows up for a social visit at the beginning of Act 3?

5. What does Liza say when she sees her father looking so different in Act 5?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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