Pygmalion Quizzes

Pygmalion Quiz 1

By Rachel Nolan · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed June 17, 2006

1 Liza is a

flower-seller

shop-girl

prostitute

homemaker
2 Higgins is a

professor

gentleman

officer

handyman
3 Coloniel Pickering served in

Pakistan

India

Ireland

Kenya
4 Mrs. Pearce is

Higgins's housekeeper

Higgins's wife

Higgins's friend

Higgins's daughter
5 The Eynsford Hills are

poor but genteel

wealthy but low class

poor and low class

wealthy and genteel
6 Who is in love with Eliza by the end?

Clara

Freddy

Doolittle

Pickering
7 The opening act is set in

Covent Garden

Mrs. Higgins's house

the Doolittles' home

Wimpole St.
8 Higgins is writing down what Liza says so

he can catch her lying

he can lure her home

he can study her speech

he can prosecute her
9 In the first act, it is

snowing

sunny

sleeting

raining
10 The Eynsford Hills have just been

to a restaurant

to the theatre

to the club

to Higgins's house
11 Higgins amazes bystanders by

standing on his head

kissing Liza

guessing where they are from

hailing a cab
12 Who takes the cab at the end of Act One?

the Eynsford Hills

Freddy

Eliza

Higgins
13 What does Higgins put in Liza's basket?

his slippers

his business card

money

flowers
14 Act Two is set in

the Doolittles' home

Covent Garden

Mrs. Higgins's home

Higgins's house/laboratory
15 Higgins has created

a universal language

a universal music

a universal alphabet

a universal dress code
16 Pickering listens to phonemes on a

tape recorder

DVD

CD

phonograph
17 Liza arrives at Higgins's house

by automobile

in a taxi

by train

by foot
18 Liza comes to

offer herself up as a prostitute

pay for English lessons

beg for more money

offer herself up as an experiment
19 The bet between Pickering and Higgins is that Higgins will not be able to pass Eliza at

a fancy dinner

an ambassador's ball

his mother's open house

a horse race
20 Higgins lures Eliza to stay with

a threat

a large sum of money

an offer of marriage

a chocolate
21 Mrs. Pearce takes Eliza away to

mother her

scold her

bathe

baby her
22 Who arrives to inquire after Eliza?

a young boy

her sister

her father

her mother
23 Why does Doolittle say that he was concerned?

because he wants to make sure that a marriage is in the works

because he wants his money back

because his daughter is a well-known prostitute

because Eliza didn't send for any clothes
24 Doolittle's heritage is

Scottish

Irish

Welsh

Indian
25 Higgins buys Eliza from her father for

tuppence

twenty pounds

ten pounds

five pounds

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