Questions

 

1.  What is Henry Higgin's area of expertise?

 

Answers (include page #) - He's an expert in phonetics, and the author of Higgin's U

 

Questions 

 

2.  How does Freddy Eynsford Hill meet Liza Doolittle the first time?

 

Answers (include page #) - He collides into her and scatters her flowers while trying to get a cab in a rainstorm after the theatre

 

3.  What is Higgin's bet with Colonel Pickering?

 

Answer - Higgins states that "in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party".  Pickering says that he will pay for Eliza's lessons and say that Higgins is the "greatest teacher alive" if Higgins succeeds.

 

4.  Why does Eliza want to learn to speak more "genteely"?

 

Answer - She wants to work in a flower shop instead of selling flowers on the street

 

5.  What is Eliza's father's job?

 

Answer - Dustman

 

6.  What does Eliza throw at Higgins in a rage when it's clear that he is unconcerned about her future?

 

Answer - His slippers

 

7.  Who takes Eliza in when she runs from Higgins' house?

 

Answer - Henry Higgins' mother, Mrs. Higgins

 

8.  Who is Mrs. Pearce?

 

Answer - Higgin's housekeeper, who frequently defends Eliza

 

9.  Who is getting married during the play?

 

Answer - Eliza's father, Mr. Doolittle

 

10.  What are Eliza's plans for her future?

 

Answer - To support herself by teaching phonetics and marry Freddy

 

11.  By what name does Eliza address Freddy the first time that they encounter each other?

 

Answer - Freddy

 

12.  When the Flower Girl gets in the taxi at Covent Garden after the thunderstorm, where does she initially tell the taxicab to take her?

 

Answer - Bucknam Pellis [Buckingham Palace]

 

13.  Higgins claims that English is the language of:

 

Answer - Shakespeare, Milton, and the Bible

 

14.  Why does the crowd hiding from the rain get so upset with Higgens for taking notes of the Flower Girl's speech?

 

Answer - They think that he is a busybody plainsclothes policeman who won't leave an innocent girl alone

 

15.  What have Pickering and Higgins written respectively?

 

Answer - Spoken Sanskrit; Higgins' Universal Alphabet

 

16.  How does Eliza Doolittle dress herself up when she visits Higgins to ask to take speech lessons?

 

Answer - She wears three mismatched ostrich feathers in her tattered hat

 

17.  What reason does Higgins give for deciding to take on the experiment?

 

Answer - Because life is but a series of inspired follies, and one must never lose a chance to commit one

 

18.  After she threatens to leave because she is so unfeeling, what does Henry give Eliza to convice her to stay?

 

Answer - Half a chocolate cream

 

19.  What does Eliza usually wear to sleep?

 

Answer - Her day clothes

 

20.  When Alfred Doolittle says he is willing to sell his daughter for fifty pounds, Pickering asks him if he has no morals.  Alfred says what in response?

 

Answer - "Can't afford them."

 

21.  All of the following witness Eliza Doolittle's phonetic debut at Mrs. Higgins' at-home except:

 

Answer - Alfred Doolittle

 

22.  Which of the following summarizes Higgins' essential attitude towards women?

 

Answer - "They're all idiots."

 

23.  What does Freddy think Eliza is speaking when he meets her at Mrs. Higgins' at-home?

 

Answer - The new small talk

 

24.  Upon finding out about the experiment, Mrs. Higgins thinks that her son and his friend Pickering are:

 

Answer - Infinitely stupid

 

25.  Who claims that Eliza must be a Hungarian princess?

 

Answer - Nepommuck

 

26.  What does Eliza fling in Higgins' face

 

Answer - His damned slippers

 

27.  Eliza has been called all the following except

 

Answer - The beauty of the Orent (by the Ambassador)

 

28.  When Freddy catches Eliza running out of Higgins' house, what is she actually on her way to do?

 

Answer - To jump into the river

 

29.  From whom does Eliza say she learns self-respect?

 

Answer - Colonel Pickering

 

30.  Why does Higgins tell Eliza she should return with him?

 

Answer - For the fun of it

 

31.  Who does Eliza marry in the course of the play, to a viewing audience's understanding?

 

Answer - No one

 

32.  For what organization must Alfred Doolittle lecture in order to make three thousand pounds a year?

 

Answer - The Wannafeller Moral reform World Language

 

33.  How much money does Alfred Doolittle want for his daughter from Higgins?

 

Answer - Five pounds

 

34.  "A-a-a-a-a-ah-ow-ooh!" is the favorite call of which of the following characters?

 

Answer - Eliza

 

35.  The last act shows the characters getting ready for whose wedding?

 

Answer - Alfred Doolittle and his woman's

 

36.  Liza is a

 

Answer - Flower-seller

 

37.  Higgins is a

 

Answer - professor

 

38.  Coloniel Pickering served in

 

Answer - India

 

39.  Mrs. Pearce is

 

Answer - Higgins's housekeeper

 

40.  The Eynsford Hills are

 

Answer - poor but genteel

 

41.  Who is in love with Eliza by the end?

 

Answer - Freddy

 

42.  The opening act is set in

 

Answer - Covent Garden

 

43.  Higgins is writing down what Liza says so

 

Answer - he can study her speech

 

44.  In the first act, it is

 

Answer - raining

 

45.  The Eynsford Hills have just been

 

Answer - to the theatre

 

46.  Higgins amazes bystanders by

 

Answer - guessing where they are from

 

47.  Who takes the cab at the end of Act One?

 

Answer - Eliza

 

48.  What does Higgins put in Liza's basket?

 

Answer - money

 

49.  Act Two is set in

 

Answer - Higgins's house/laborator

 

50.  Higgins has created

 

Answer - a universal alphabet

 

51.  Pickering listens to phonemes on a

 

Answer - phonograph

 

52.  Liza arrives at Higgins's house

 

Answer - in a taxi

 

53.  Liza comes to

 

Answer - pay for English Lessons

 

54.  The bet between Pickering and Higgins is that Higgins will not be able to pass Eliza at

 

Answer - an ambassador's ball

 

55.  Higgins lures Eliza to stay with

 

Answer - a chocolate

 

56.  Mrs. Pearce takes Eliza away to

 

Answer - bathe

 

57.  Who arrives to inquire after Eliza?

 

Answer - her father

 

58.  Why does Doolittle say that he was concerned?

 

Answer- because Eliza didn't send for any clothes

 

59.  Doolittle's heritage is

 

Answer - Welsh

 

60.  Higgins buys Eliza from her father for

 

Answer - five pounds