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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 Liza realize at the end of Act 5?
(a) She's truly and deeply in love with Freddy.
(b) She's every bit as good as Higgins.
(c) She's truly and deeply in love with Higgins.
(d) She's no better than she ever was.

2. What does Liza throw at Higgins when they return home after the party?
(a) The ring he bought her.
(b) A book about his precious alphabet.
(c) All her jewelry.
(d) His slippers.

3. What does Liza ask Higgins about her clothes?
(a) She asks him if he plans to burn them as he did with her old clothes.
(b) She asks bitterly whether he finds them beautiful on a poor flower girl.
(c) She wants to know if they belong to her or Pickering.
(d) She asks whether they will be any good for her now.

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

5. Who is delighted with Liza's "small talk" during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?
(a) Mrs. Higgins.
(b) Freddy and Clara.
(c) Higgins and Pickering.
(d) Mrs. Eynsford Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Higgins concerned about after meeting Liza at the social visit in Act 3?

2. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?

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

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

5. 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."

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does Mrs. Higgins say when she learns the two men have phoned the police at the beginning of Act 5? What does Mrs. Higgins realize about Liza that the two men do not?

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

8. 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?

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

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

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