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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 is the difference between a lady and a flower girl?
(a) How she speaks.
(b) How she's treated.
(c) How she behaves.
(d) Her moral values.

2. 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) He always loved her, although she never knew it.
(c) Such an insignificant girl as her can never hurt him.
(d) There can never be any feeling between the likes of her and the likes of him.

3. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?
(a) To the chapel to get married.
(b) To Covent Garden, where they see Liza's father.
(c) To see Mrs. Higgins.
(d) They ride around the city all night.

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

5. To whom does Liza plan to go for advice the day after she leaves Higgins?
(a) Mrs. Higgins.
(b) Pickering.
(c) Mrs. Pearce.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Freddy tell the officer?

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

4. What does Higgins think of Liza at the end of Act 5?

5. What does Higgins offer to do for Liza at the end of the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. How does Liza finally come into her own as a woman at the end of Act 5?

8. 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?

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

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

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