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

2. What is striking about Neppomuck's appearance?
(a) He has a very hairy face.
(b) He has very dark, swarthy skin.
(c) He is extremely large and burly.
(d) He is exceptionally handsome.

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

4. Which best describes Liza's mood when the group first returns home from the party?
(a) Tired and brooding.
(b) Furious.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Quietly triumphant.

5. Why is Liza's father, Doolittle, upset with Higgins?
(a) Higgins has made him a respectable gentleman.
(b) He thinks Higgins has kicked Liza out.
(c) He thinks Higgins has taken advantage of Liza.
(d) Higgins has made him lose all his money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?

2. What does Higgins say about the experiment with Liza?

3. What shocking fact does Liza reveal about her father while talking with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

4. What does Liza say she never did when she was a flower girl?

5. What does Freddy tell the officer?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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