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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. About how much do Liza's clothes cost?
(a) 1000 pounds
(b) 500 pounds.
(c) 1200 pounds.
(d) 200 pounds.

2. Where is Liza at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) With her father.
(b) With Freddy.
(c) With Mrs. Higgins.
(d) Back in Covent Garden, wandering in the vegetable market.

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) Screams in rage.
(d) Bursts into tears.

4. Who comes looking for Higgins at the beginning of Act 5?
(a) Liza, demanding an apology.
(b) Freddy, to ask Liza's hand in marriage.
(c) Liza's father, Doolittle.
(d) The police, to ask him questions.

5. Who is Neppomuck?
(a) A Hungarian prince.
(b) A major rival of Higgins.
(c) A former student of Higgins.
(d) The ambassador from Hungary.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Liza meets Freddy in the street at the end of Act 4, where does she say she is going?

2. For whom or what does Pickering say the evening has been a real triumph?

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

4. What do Higgins and Pickering fear might happen at the end of Act 3 to spoil their bet?

5. Where do Freddy and Liza go at the end of Act 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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