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Pygmalion Act 1 quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Q. Who is Eliza Doolittle?

a)

A scholar of phonetics who treats Eliza respectfully

b)

A young, working class girl who is educated into the middle class

c)

A scholar of phonetics who is heedless of people’s feelings

d)

Higgins’s housekeeper who points out his mistakes

2.

Who is Henry Higgins?

a)

A scholar of phonetics who treats Eliza respectfully

b)

A young, working class girl who is educated into the middle class

c)

A scholar of phonetics who is heedless of people’s feelings

d)

A dustman who is honest about his own ignorance

3.

Who is Colonel Pickering?

a)

Higgins’s housekeeper who points out his mistakes

b)

A scholar of phonetics who treats Eliza respectfully

c)

A young, working class girl who is educated into the middle class

d)

A scholar of phonetics who is heedless of people’s feelings

4.

The play is set in......

a)

London

b)

Paris

c)

Rome

d)

Manchester

5.

In the opening act of the play, the weather can best be described as......

a)

Sunny

b)

Cold

c)

Rainy

d)

Hot

6.

In Act I, the readers are FIRST introduced to Henry Higgins as.....

a)

Phonetician

b)

Note Taker

c)

Flower Girl

d)

Gentlemen

7.

In Act I, the readers are first introduced to Colonel Pickering as.....

a)

Gentleman

b)

Professor

c)

Student

d)

Merchant

8.

In Act I, the readers are first introduced to Eliza as.....

a)

Nun

b)

Shop Keeper

c)

Flower Girl

d)

Begger

9.
In Act I, we learn that the Henry Higgens is a master of _________________.
a)
The social classes
b)
Phonetics 
c)
Proximity
d)
The Victorian Era
10.
Which of the following was NOT part of the setting for Act I?
a)
Berkshire
b)
Covent Garden
c)
Heavy Rain
d)
St. Paul's Church
11.

In Act I, Henry Higgens is very _______________ of the Flower Girl.

a)

Sensible

b)

Amiable

c)

Phonetic

d)

Deprecating

12.
Members of different social classes speak different _______________.
a)
Rhymes
b)
Rules
c)
Dialects
d)
Synonyms
13.
What is the play named after?
a)
The small city where the Flower Girl is from.
b)
The place in India, where Pickering learned about Indian accents
c)
The native dialect
d)
The ancient Greek myth, about a sculptor who creates a perfect woman by sculpting a statue.
14.

Higgins amazes bystanders by

a)

A. guessing where they're from

b)

B.kissing Liza

c)

C.standing on his head

d)

D.hailing a cab

15.

Which inference fits best with what we learned about the Flower Girl in Act 1?

a)

A. She is a woman who sells flowers for a living and sometimes she likes to walk around in the rain.

b)

B. She is a rich woman who is only selling flowers because she is bored and needed and an excuse to get out of the house.

c)

C. She is neither rich nor poor and she enjoys walking the streets and handing out flowers for a fee.

d)

D. She is clearly poor, because she is dirty, has shabby clothes, and hasn't had her teeth taken care of.

16.
How does the Flower Girl react to the knowledge that a person is writing down everything she is saying?
a)
She laughs because she thinks that it is funny that someone is concerned with her business. 
b)
She is terrified because she thinks the unknown person is a policeman who is getting ready to charge her. 
c)
She is happy because there are people that want to buy her flowers. 
d)
She is angry and yells at the man for taking notes on her and runs into the street and gets hit by a car. 
17.

The Author of Pygmalion is

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Geoffrey Chaucer

c)

John Cox Smith

d)

George Bernard Shaw

18.

The flower girl becomes alarmed becuase she thinks the note taker is a(n)

a)

admirer.

b)

informer.

c)

stalker.

d)

priest.

19.

How does Henry Higgins define phonetics?

a)

The science of language

b)

The science of speech

c)

The art of interpretation

d)

The art of listening

20.

Higgins claims he can pass Liza off as a:

a)

Queen

b)

Duchess

c)

Princess

d)

Gentlewoman