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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 think of Neppomuck?
(a) He is very clever, perhaps too clever.
(b) He is boring.
(c) He is a fool.
(d) He is a perfect companion for Liza.

2. What does Higgins think is a disgusting sight?
(a) A woman fetching a man's slippers like a slave.
(b) A woman "s'yollin voylets" (selling violets) in the gutter.
(c) An ungrateful, snobbish woman.
(d) A woman shouting for independence.

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

4. At the beginning of Act 5, Doolittle's life has changed. What must he now do?
(a) Go at once to America to work for Ezra Wannafeller.
(b) Work hard as a laborer to support Liza.
(c) Teach phonetics at a new school for the poor.
(d) Give lectures about morality.

5. What question does Liza have for Higgins after the party is over and they are back at Higgins's home?
(a) Who will ever marry someone like me?
(b) Don't you think I'm beautiful?
(c) What's to become of me?
(d) Will I ever be a real lady?

Short Answer Questions

1. What shocking word does Liza use during the social visit with the Eynsford Hills in Act 3?

2. What does Higgins say to Liza after she faces up to him and hurts his feelings in Act 4?

3. What compliment does Higgins pay Liza during their discussion after the party?

4. Why is Freddy waiting outside Higgins's house when Liza leaves Higgins?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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