Pygmalion MCQs with Answers

• PYGMALION is written By?

(a) Shakespeare
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Professor Higgins
(d) Christopher Marlowe

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• PYGMALION HAS ACTS _________.

(a) 5
(b) 4
(c) 6
(d) 3

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• HENRY HIGGINS WAS SPECIALIZED IN _________.

(a) Phonetics
(b) Literature
(c) Mathematics
(d) Chemistry

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• COLONEL PICKERING IS A ___________.

(a) Chemist
(b) Author of the spoken Sanskrit.
(c) Author of Pygmalion
(d) Eliza’s guardian

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• _______ was COURTEOUS and POLITE to ELIZA.

(a) Professor Higgins
(b) Colonel Pickering
(c) Clara
(d) Mr Dolittle

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• ALFRED DOOLITTLE was?

(a) Dustman
(b) Clerk
(c) Owner of flower shop
(d) Housekeeper

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• CLARA EYENSFORD was:

(a) Dull and lazy girl
(b) Rival of Eliza
(c) Admirer of Eliza
(d) Modern, snobbish girl

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• FREDDY EYENSFORD HILL WAS:

(a) Phonetician
(b) Professor
(c) Eliza’s teacher
(d) Pleasant young boy, attracted towards ELIZA

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• who was enchanted by ELIZA upon first social meeting?

(a) Pickering
(b) Higgins
(c) Freddy
(d) No one

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• MRS PEARCE WAS:

(a) Higgins’ housekeeper
(b) Higgins’ guardian
(c) Higgins’ mother
(d) Higgins’ aunt

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• WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
  TITLE “PYGMALION”? WHO WAS
  PYGMALION?

(a) Historian
(b) Ancient Greek sculptor who made beautiful statue of woman

(c) god of love
(d) well known phonetician

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• WHY ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL, TITO
  PAGLIARDINI AND HENRY SWEET WERE
  HEROES TO SHAW?

(a) Because they were admirer of women
(b) Because they wanted to reform the language
(c) Because they were historians
(d) Because they were writers

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• ALEXANDER MELVILLE BELL was the FATHER of:

(a) Prof. Higgings
(b) Alexander Graham Bell
(c) Col. Pickering
(d) G.B Shaw

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• WHAT DOES FREDDY DO AT THE
  BEGINNING OF ACT I THAT SHOWS HIS
  POOR MANNERS?

(a) He steals the money of flower girl
(b) He knocks over the flower girl and doesn’t offer to pay for
the flowers he ruined
(c) He uses abusive language

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• FLOWER GIRL was _________ Years old.

(a) 18 to 20
(b) 16 to 18
(c) 20 to 22
(d) 25 to 27

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• why did ELIZA want to learn the SOPHISTICATED WAY OF SPEAKING?

(a) So she can boast in her surroundings
(b) So she can marry a rich man
(c) So she can work at indoor flower shop
(d) So she can be phonetician

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• WHAT IS FREDDY LOOKING for in the BEGINNING OF ACTI?

(a) For a cab
(b) For flowers
(c) For restaurant
(d) For umbrella

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• WHERE DOES ELIZA tell the TAXI DRIVER to take her?

(a) Buckingham palace
(b) To Mrs. Higgins’ house
(c) To Pickering’s house
(d) To Freddy’s house

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• WHAT DOES PROFESSOR HIGGINS BET he will TRANSFORM THE FLOWER
  GIRL into?

(a) An English teacher
(b) A Chemist
(c) To make her speak better than a duchess
(d) Detective

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• how was the weather during the opening of the first act?

(a) Rainy night
(b) Snowstorm
(c) Windy
(d) Sunny day

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• Professor Higgins is _________.

(a) Ugly mathematician around 30
(b) Very serious chemist around 45
(c) An attractive and rude phonetician around 40
(d) Author of Sanskrit

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• Why does ELIZA’S Father come to see Higgins?

(a) To blackmail Higgins for his daughter’s honor
(b) For learning English
(c) For presenting a gift
(d) To see his daughter Elizaa

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• Who was the Note-Taker?

(a) Higgins
(b) Pickering
(c) Freddy
(d) Eliza

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• What is the first thing higgins notices about ELIZA?

(a) Her smartness
(b) Her beauty
(c) Her Cockney accent
(d) Her poverty

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• ELIZA was a:

(a) Shy and timid girl
(b) Bold and defiant girl
(c) Modern and snobbish girl
(d) Dull and lazy girl

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• Which character of the play created the comedy?

(a) Freddy
(b) Eliza
(c) Pickering
(d) Higgins

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• WHAT DOES THE FLOWER GIRL DO AT THE
  END OF ACTI THAT SHOWS SHE HAS A
  SENSE OF PRIDE?

(a) She tells the cab driver to take her to Buckingham palace

(b) She gives extra coins to cab driver
(c) She gives flowers for free
(d) She gives back the money Higgins gives him

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• WHAT DOES ELIZA LIKELY MEAN WHEN SHE
  SAYS IAM A GOOD GIRL, I AM”?

(a) That she is not willing to sell herself
(b) That she is obedient
(c) That she is a good student
(d) That she is not a thief

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• HIGGINS CALLED _________ “PRESUMPTUOUS INSECT”

(a) Freddy
(b) Pickering
(c) Eliza
(d) Alfred Doolittle

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• MRS. HIGGINS WORRIES that the experiment will lead to
  ___________ ended.

(a) Innovation
(b) Success
(c) Problems
(d) Excitement

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• WHO WAS NEPPOMUCK?

(a) A former pupil of Higgins
(b) Ambassador
(c) Eliza’s teacher
(d) Eliza’s lover

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• WHAT DOES NEPPOMUCK AND THE
  AMBASSADOR’S WIFE CONCLUDE ABOUT ELIZA?

(a) That Eliza is Hungarian princess
(b) Eliza is uneducated girl
(c) Eliza is a flower Girl
(d) Eliza is a phonetician

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• HOW MANY LANGUAGES NEPPOMUCK
  COULD SPEAK?

(a) 32
(b) 10
(c) 12
(d) 9

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• HOW WAS THE BEHAVIOR OF HIGGINS
  TOWARDS ELIZA?

(a) rude and strict
(b) loving and caring
(c) attracted towards her beauty
(d) shy and non-serious

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• ELIZA CALLED HIGGINS

(a) A great bully
(b) A kind hearted man
(c) A great teacher
(d) A great phonetician

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• HIGGINS RUSHES TO HIS MOTHER, IN A PANIC BECAUSE ELIZA HAS
  _________.

(a) Run Away
(b) Died
(c) Committed Suicide
(d) Been Shy

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• ELIZA’S FATHER BECOMES UNHAPPILY RICH
  FROM THE __________ OF DECEASED MILLIONAIRE.

(a) Trust
(b) Death
(c) Suicide
(d) Fraud

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• MRS. HIGGINS WAS HIDING ELIZA

(a) Upstairs
(b) In Cellar
(c) In Kitchen
(d) In Jail

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• MRS. HIGGINS CHIDES THE TWO OF THEM
  FOR PLAYING WITH THE GIRL’S

(a) Toys
(b) Affections
(c) Friends
(d) Laughter

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• ELIZA thanks __________ for always treating her like a lady.

(a) Higgins
(b) Pickering
(c) Mrs. Higgins
(d) Freddy

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• ________ THREATENS HIGGINS THAT SHE WILL
  GO WORK WITH HIS RIVAL PHONETICIAN, NEPOMMUCK

(a) Ms. Pearce
(b) Eliza
(c) Mrs. Higgins
(d) Clara

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• HIGGINS EXPECTS ELIZA TO

(a) Run
(b) Return
(c) Go
(d) marry

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• ELIZA BUMPS INTO FREDDY AND THEY _____________.

(a) Return
(b) Kiss
(c) Go
(d) Marry

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• NEAR THE END, ELIZA’S FATHER IS __________ AGAIN.

(a) Returning
(b) Marrying
(c) Drinking
(d) Begging

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• PYGMALION IS A LEGENDARY FIGURE OF
  CYPRUS IN __________ MYTHOLOGY

(a) No
(b) Greek
(c) Celtic
(d) Norse

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• PYGMALION WAS A KING AND A ___________.

(a) Roman god
(b) Sculptor
(c) Celtic Hero
(d) Norse Demigod

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• PYGMALION WAS MORE FAMILIAR FROM:

(a) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
(b) Ovid’s narrative poem Metamorphoses
(c) Celtic Myths
(d) Norse Mythologies

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