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Covers:Characters,All the Acts. Essay Questions are included to help with exams and to get a better understanding of the book.Please let other know if it help you. Thank you. Good luck and I'm rooting for you (/^▽^)/

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Some examples from this set of practice questions

1.

BY what name does Eliza address Freddy the first time that they encounter each other?

Answer: Freddy

2.

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]

3.

Higgins claims that English is the language of:

Answer: Shakespeare, Milton, and The Bible

4.

Why does the crowd hiding from the rain get so upset with Higgins for taking notes on Eliza\\\'s speech?

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

5.

What have Pickering and Higgins written respectively?

Answer: Spoken Sanskrit; Higgins\\\' Universal Alphabet

6.

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

7.

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

Answer: Half a chocolate cream

8.

What does Eliza usually wear to sleep?

Answer: Her day clothes

9.

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

10.

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

Answer: new \\\"small talk\\\"

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