Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER. I can. (Reads, reproducing her pronunciation exactly) “Yo-yo, ssup, dude! Ain’t nobody gonna crash no party in South Central LA,dude”
B) THE GENTLEMAN. Charge! I make no charge. (To the note taker) Really, sir, if you are a detective, you need not begin protecting me against molestation by young women until I ask you. Anybody could see that the girl meant no harm
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A visionary and mystic whose philosophy of moral passion permeates his plays, Shaw was also the most trenchant pamphleteer since Swift; the most readable music critic in English, the best theatre critic of his generation
B) His development of a drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate, his revivifying the comedy of manners, his ventures into symbolic farce and into a theatre of disbelief helped shape the theatre of his time and after
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) All are peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing
B) The church clock strikes the first quarter
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) At the other side of Mrs Higgins’s drawing room, farther forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones, from ASHAN
B) On the same side there is a piano in a decorated sunduk
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) By bringing a bold critical intelligence to his many other areas of interest, Shaw helped mold the political, economic, and sociological thought of three families
B) Possibly Shaw’s comedic masterpiece, and certainly his funniest and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913)
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions
B) Pedestrians running for free food into the portico of St. Paul’s church (not Wren’s Cathedral but lnigo Jones’s church in Covent Garden vegetable market)
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE But I, as one of the undeserving poor, have nothing between me and the pauper’s uniform but this here blasted three thousand a year that shoves me into the oligarhs
B) DOOLITTLE Theyve got you every way you turn: it’s a choice between the Skilly of the workhouse and the Char Bydis of the middle class: and I ‘m ready for the workhouse
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE If I was one of the wealthiest, and had put by a bit, I could chuck it; but then why should I, acause the deserving poor might as well be millionaires for all the happiness they ever has
B) DOOLITTLE They dont know what happiness is
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE In the house I’m not let do a hand’s turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it
B) DOOLITTLE A year ago I hadn’t a woman except two or three that wouldn’t speak to me
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE Intimidated: thats what I am. Broke. Bought up. Happier men than me will call for my dust, and touch me for their tip
B) DOOLITTLE I’ll look on helpless, and envy them. And thats what your grandfather has brought me to
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE It aint the lecturing I mind I’ll lecture them blue in the face, I will, and not turn a face
B) DOOLITTLE It’s making a gentleman of me that I object to
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE I’ll have to learn to speak middle class language from you, instead of speaking proper English. Thats where you’ll come in; and I daresay thats what you done it
B) THE NOTE TAKER. I dont know whether youve noticed it; but the rain stopped about two minutes ago
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE Now I am worrited; tied neck and heels; and everybody touches me for money. It’s a fine thing for you, says my solicitor
B) DOOLITTLE. When I was a rich man and had a solicitor once when they found a pram in the dust cart, he got me off, and got shut of me and got me shut of him as quick as he could
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE Now I’ve twenty, and not a decent week’s wages among the lot of them
B) DOOLITTLE I have to live for myself: that’s middle class morality
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay
B) DOOLITTLE Now they finds out that I’m not a healthy man and can’t live unless they looks after me twice a day
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE We’re all intimidated. Intimidated, maam: thats what we are
B) DOOLITTLE What is there for me if I chuck it but the work-house in my old age? I have to dye my hair already to keep my job as a dustman
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE Who asked him to make a gentleman of me? I was happy. I was free. I was a hippie
B) DOOLITTLE I touched pretty nigh everybody for money when I wanted it, same as I touched you, Eliza
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) DOOLITTLE You talk of losing Freddy. Dont you be anxious: I bet she’s on my doorstep by this: she that could support herself easy by selling flowers if I wasnt respectable
B) DOOLITTLE And the next one to touch me will be you, Enry lggins
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Further down the room, on the same side, is a fireplace, with a comfortable leather-covered easy-chair at the side of the hearth nearest the door, and a coal-scuttle
B) There is a clock on the mantelpiece. Between the fireplace and the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) I started on her some months ago; and she’s getting on like a house on fire. I shall win my bet
B) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) Pickering is in it with me. Ive a sort of bet on that I’ll pass her off as a duchess in six months
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) I started on her some months ago; and she’s getting on like a tank
B) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) She’s been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because she’s had to learn a complete new language
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) She talks English almost as you talk French
B) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) She has a quick eye
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) Well, she must talk about something
B) HIGGINS (about the flower girl) Oh, she’ll be all right: dont you fuss
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS : Oh, that comes with practice. You hear no difference at first; but you keep on listening, and presently you find they’re all as the same
B) MRS PEARCE (hesitating, evidently perplexed). A young woman asks to see you, sir
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Higgins appears in the morning light as a robust, vital, appetizing sort of man of seventy
B) He is dressed in a professional-looking black frock-coat with a white linen collar and black silk tie, and a pair of jeans
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Higgins is of the energetic, scientific type, heartily, even violently interested in everything that can be studied as a scientific subject, and careful about himself and other people, including their feelings
B) He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby “taking notice” eagerly and loudly, and requiring almost as much watching to keep him out of unintended mischief
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Higgins is so entirely frank and void of malice that he remains likeable even in his least reasonable moments
B) His manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good humor to stormy petulance when anything goes wrong
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS Oh, she’ll be all right: dont you fuss. Pickering is in it with me. Ive a sort of bet on that I’ll pass her off as a duchess in six months
B) HIGGINS I started on her some months ago; and she’s getting on like a bellygoat
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Higgins throws himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it
B) Mrs Higgins looks at him, doesn’t control herself and says terrible obsenities
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS We’re supposed to be civilized and cultured — to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on
B) Higgins goes to the PC, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) HIGGINS. What they think they ought to think is had enough. Pickering knows: but what they really think would break up the whole show
B) HIGGINS. You see, we’re all savages, more or less
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he’s sober; and then it makes him low-spirited
B) A drop of absent just takes that off and makes him happy
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) If you stand with your face to the windows in Mrs Higgins’s drawing room, you have the fireplace on your left and the door in the right-hand wall close to the corner nearest the windows. There is an LCD TV in front.
B) Mrs Higgins was brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; and her room, which is very unlike her son’s room in Wimpole Street, is not crowded with furniture and little pieces of wood and plastic left after renovation
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In Mrs Higgins’s drawing room there is a portrait of Mrs Higgins as she was when she defied the fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies
B) The only landscape is a Glazunov painting
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In the corner of Mrs Higgins’s drawing room diagonally opposite the door Mrs Higgins, now over sixty and long past taking the trouble to dress out of the fashion, sits writing at an elegantly simple writing-table with a bell button within reach of her hand
B) There is an IKEA chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In the middle of Mrs Higgins’s drawing room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things
B) A few good oil-paintings from exhibitions in Moscow are on the walls
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It is Mrs Higgins’s at-home day
B) Nobody has get arrived
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It stands near the fireplace. On the walls, engravings: mostly Piranesis and mezzotint portraits
B) No paintings
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its anti-heroic hero, Henry Higgins, is a phonetician, but the play is a terrible tragedy about love and the English class system
B) The play is about the training Higgins gives to a royal girl to enable her to pass as a lady and is also about the repercussions of the experiment’s success
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) LIZA (with perfectly elegant diction). Walk! Not bloody likely. (Sensation). I am going in a plane
B) Pickering gasps and sits down. Freddy goes out on the balcony to catch a plane for Eliza
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) LIZA When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he’d drunk himself cheerful and loving-like
B) LIZA Theres lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) LIZA. Not a bit. It never did him no good what I could see
B) LIZA But then he didn’t keep it up regular
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) London at 11.15 p.m, april 15th, 2009
B) Heavy snowfall
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Mrs and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden
B) The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Mrs and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and grandmother who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden
B) Miss Eynsford Hill has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of the elite
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS EYNSFORD HILL (suffering from shock). Wow!!! I really get off on all these new ways
B) CLARA (throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair). Oh, it’s all right, mamma, quite right. People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS EYNSFORD HILL: I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you wont begin using that expression, Clara
B) MRS EYNSFORD HILL: I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS HIGGINS (dismayed). Henry! (Scolding him) What are you doing here today? It is my at-home day: you promised to go see a chealsea game in the pub
B) HIGGINS. I must. Ive a job for you. A bloody job!
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS HIGGINS. No use, dear. I’m sorry; but I cant get round your alphabet;
B) THE FLOWER GIRL (much distressed). It’s because I called him Captain. I meant no harm. (To the gentleman) Oh, sir, dont let him lay a charge agen me for a word like that
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS HIGGINS. Safe! To talk about our health! about our insides! perhaps about our dead bodies
B) HIGGINS (impatiently). Well, she mustn’t talk about anything
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Mrs Higgins’s drawing room, in a flat on Chelsea Embankment, has three windows looking on the stadium; he can watch all the Chealsea games from the window
B) The windows are open, giving access to a balcony with flowers in pots
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) MRS PEARCE. Well, sir, she says youll be glad to see her when you know what she’s come about. She’s a monster.
B) HIGGINS. This is rather a bit of luck. I’ll shew you how I make records. We’ll promote her to Columbia Records
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Next day at II a. m. Higgins’s tourture room in Wimpole Street
B) It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and was meant for the drawing room
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Oh, thatll be all right, Ive taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior
B) She’s to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody’s health — Fine day and How do you do, you know — and not to let herself go on things in general. That will be safe
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) On the other side of the central door, to the left of the visitor, is a cabinet of a doctor
B) On it is a telephone and the telephone directory
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) PICKERING (with enthusiasm). I came from Ukraine to meet you
B) THE NOTE TAKER. Henry Higgins, author of Higgins’s Universal Alphabet
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Pickering is seated at the table, putting down some cards and a tuning-fork which he has been using to eat pelmeni
B) Higgins is standing up near him, closing two or three file drawers which are hanging out
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) PICKERING. Dont ask me. Ive been away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don’t know whether I’m at a respectable dinnertable or in a ship’s forecastle
B) The door is opened violently; and Higgins enters with his gasmask on
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Shaw, George Bernard (was born July 26, 1856, Dublin – died November 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and Socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925
B) The most significant British playwright since the 17th century, George Bernard Shaw was more than merely the best stand-up comedian of his time
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE BYSTANDER (to her). Stand it from him!
B) THE FLOWER GIRL. Let him say what he likes. I want to have a truck with him
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE BYSTANDER. That aint a police whistle: that’s a sporting whistle
B) THE FLOWER GIRL (still preoccupied with her wounded feelings). He’s no right to take away my hair. My hair is the same to me as any lady’s
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE BYSTANDERS GENERALLY Girl never said a word to him
B) THE FLOWER GIRL (with feeble defiance). Ive a right to be here if I like, same as you
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and dont sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The corner between the fireplace and the window in Mrs Higgins’s drawing room is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz, bought in Dom Mebeli at Vodnyi Stadion
B) HIGGINS Why, this is the girl I jotted down last night. She’s no use: Ive got all the records I want of the Lisson Grove lingo; and I’m not going to waste another cylinder on it. (To the girl) Be off with you: I dont want you
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The corner beyond, and most of the side wall, is occupied by a small toy piano, with the keyboard at the end furthest from the door, and a bench for the player extending the full length of the keyboard
B) On the piano is a dessert dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly peanut butter
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The double heavy metal doors are in the middle of the back wall; and persons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file cabinets at right angles to one another against the walls
B) In this corner stands a flat computer-table, on which are a phonograph, a laryngoscope, a row of tiny organ pipes with a bellows
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE FLOWER GIRL (breaking through them to the gentleman, crying wildly). Oh, sir, dont let him charge me. You dunno what it means to me. Theyll take away my character and drive me on the streets for speaking to gentlemen
B) THE NOTE TAKER (coming forward on her right, the rest crowding after him). There! here! up! down!
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE FLOWER GIRL (quite overwhelmed, looking up at him in mingled wonder and deprecation without daring to raise her head). Ku-ka-re-kuh
B) THE NOTE TAKER. A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds is….the best woman in the whole world
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE FLOWER GIRL (resenting the reaction). He’s no gentleman, he aint, to interfere with princess Diana
B) THE DAUGHTER (out of patience, pushing her way rudely to the front and displacing the gentleman, who politely retires to the other side of the pillar). What on earth is Freddy doing? I shall get pneumownia if I stay on the beach any longer
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The flower girl enters in state
B) She has a hat with three ostrich feathers, orange, sky-blue, and red. She has a nearly clean apron, a shoddy coat and red polka-dot sharovary from her ukranian uncle
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE FLOWER GIRL You just shew me what youve wrote about me
B) The note taker opens his book and holds it steadily under her nose, though the pressure of the mob trying to read it over his shoulders would upset a weaker man
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE FLOWER GIRL. Poor girl! Hard enough for her to live without being worrited and chivied
B) All the rest have gone except the note taker, the gentleman, and the flower girl, who sits arranging her basket and still pitying herself in murmurs
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The FLOWER GIRL: Whats that? That aint proper writing. It’s cyrillics, for crissakes!
B) HIGGINS( TO PICKERING). I was going to Russia to meet you
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The middle of the room is clear
B) Besides the easy-chair, the piano bench, and two chairs at the phonograph table, there is one stray chair and a CD player
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE MOTHER. It’s quite fine now, Clara. We can walk to a motor bus. Come
B) THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. I can tell where you come from. You come from Anwell. Go back there
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE MOTHER. Oh please, please, Clara. (Her daughter repudiates her with an angry shrug and retires haughtily) We should be so grateful to you, sir, if you found us a plane. (The note taker produces a whistle) Oh, thank you
B) THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. There! I knowed he was a plain-clothes copper
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER (explosively). Woman: cease this detestable boohooing instantly; or else seek the shelter of some other place of worship
B) THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. Yes: tell him where he come from if you want to go duck-hunting
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER (uproariously amused). Ha! ha! What a devil of a name! Excuse me
B) THE DAUGHTER. Dont dare speak to me
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets
B) THE NOTE TAKER. Men begin in Kentish Town with Ј80 a year, and end in Park Lane with a hundred thousand
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER They want to drop Kentish Town; but they give themselves away every time they open their eyes
B) THE FLOWER GIRL. Let him mind his own business and leave a poor girl—
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party
B) THE NOTE TAKER I could even get her a place as lady’s maid or shop assistant, which requires better English and computer skills
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) THE NOTE TAKER. Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language: I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba. (To the Gentleman)
B) THE NOTE TAKER. You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The pathos of this deplorable figure of the flower girl, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs Pearce
B) But as to Higgins, the only distinction he makes between men and women is that when he is neither bullying nor exclaiming to the heavens against some feather-weight cross, he coaxes women as a child coaxes its nurse when it wants to get anything out of her
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The scene in which Eliza Doolittle appears in high society when she has acquired a correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is one of the funniest in English drama
B) Pygmalion has been both filmed (1838), winning an Academy Award for Shaw for his screenplay, and adapted into an immensely popular musical, index My Fair Lady (1856; motion-picture version, 1866)
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A). Simply phonetics. The science of speech. Thats my profession; also my hobby
B) THE NOTE TAKER Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby! You can spot a Moscovite or a Murmanchanin by his brogue
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A portrait of a popular _________ and a fashion plate of ladies’ dresses, all wildly beyond poor Eliza’s means, both torn from newspapers, are pinned up on the wall
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A taxi fare aint no object to me, _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A broken pane in the _________ is mended with paper
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A BYSTANDER (on the lady’s right). He wont get no cab not until half-past eleven, missus, when they come back after dropping their theatre _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A visionary and _________ whose philosophy of moral passion permeates his plays, Shaw was also the most trenchant pamphleteer since Swift
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A _________ hangs in the window; but its tenant died long ago: It remains as a memorial only
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: All are peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, wholly preoccupied with a _________ in which he is writing
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into the shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella. He is in the same plight as Freddy, very wet about the ankles. He is in evening dress, with a light _________. He takes the place left vacant by the daughter
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And left me with a cab on my _________! Damnation!
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: By bringing a bold critical intelligence to his many other areas of interest, he helped mold the political, economic, and sociological thought of three _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Dont you know where it is? In the Green Park, where the King lives. Goodbye. _________. Dont let me keep you standing there. Goodbye
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Freddy rushes in out of the rain from the _________ Street side, and comes between them, closing a dripping umbrella. He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet round the ankles
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. I shall simply get _________ for nothing
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. I tell you theyre all engaged. The rain was so sudden: nobody was prepared; and everybody had to take a cab. Ive been to Charing _________ one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other; and they were all engaged
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. Oh, very well: I’ll go, I’ll go. (He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her _________. A blinding flash of lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. Sorry (he _________ off)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. There wasnt one at _________ Square
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: FREDDY. There’s not one to be had for _________ or money
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Good for you, _________. Keep the shilling, darling, with best love from all at home
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her _________ are much the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be: but compared to the ladies she is very dirty
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Her _________ needs washing rather badly: it’s mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown skirt with a coarse apron
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Here _________, chronically weary, but too excited to go to bed, sits, counting her new riches and dreaming and planning what to do with them, until the gas goes out, when she enjoys for the first time the sensation of being able to put in another penny without grudging it
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (as he shuts the last drawer). Well, I think thats the whole _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His development of a drama of moral passion and of intellectual conflict and debate, his revivifying the comedy of _________, his ventures into symbolic farce and into a theatre of disbelief helped shape the theatre of his time and after
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was claimed by Shaw to be a didactic drama about phonetics, and its anti-heroic hero, Henry _________, is a phonetician, but the play is a humane comedy about love and the English class system
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I’m getting chilled to the bone. What can _________ be doing all this time? He’s been gone twenty minutes
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the portico of St. Paul’s church (not Wren’s Cathedral but lnigo Jones’s church in _________ Garden vegetable market), among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Never mind, young _________. I’m going home in a taxi
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Of course I havn’t none. But I wasnt going to let him know that. You drive me _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: PICKERING ( rising and coming to the fireplace, where he plants himself with his back to the fire). No, thank you: not now. I’m quite _________ up for this morning
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Possibly Shaw’s _________ masterpiece, and certainly his funniest and most popular play, is Pygmalion (performed 1913)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Pygmalion has been both filmed (1938), winning an Academy Award for Shaw for his screenplay, and adapted into an immensely popular musical, index My Fair _________ (1956; motion-picture version, 1964)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Shaw, _________ Bernard (was born July 26, 1856, Dublin – died November 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and Socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps _________, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She picks up the _________ and trudges up the alley with it to her lodging: a small room with very old wall paper hanging loose in the damp places
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady’s right. She is not at all a romantic _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: So she takes off her shawl and __________ and adds them to the miscellaneous bedclothes
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE BYSTANDER. Well, it aint my fault, _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The church clock strikes the first _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. And what about us? Are we to stay here all night in this draught, with next to nothing on? You selfish _________—
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. If Freddy had a bit of _________, he would have got one at the theatre door
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. Make her give you the change. These things are only a _________ a bunch
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. No. lve nothing smaller than _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. Sixpence thrown away! Really, mamma, you might have spared _________ that. (She retreats in disgust behind the pillar)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE DAUGHTER. You havn’t _________ at all
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL (hopefully). I can give you change for a tanner, _________ lady
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL (picking up her scattered flowers and replacing them in the _________). There’s menners f’ yer! Ta-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL (taking advantage of the military gentleman’s proximity to establish friendly relations with him). If it’s worse, it’s a sign it’s nearly over. So cheer up. _________; and buy a flower off a poor girl
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL. Nah then, Freddy: look wh’ y’ _________, deah
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL. Ow, eez ye-ooa son, is e? Wal, fewd dan y’ de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel’s flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f’them? (Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside _________)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE FLOWER GIRL. Thank you kindly, _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE GENTLEMAN. I’m afraid not. It started worse than ever about two minutes ago (he goes to the plinth beside the _________ girl; puts up his foot on it, and stoops to turn down his trouser ends)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE GENTLEMAN. I’m sorry. I havnt any _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The most _________ British playwright since the 17th century, George Bernard Shaw was more than merely the best comic dramatist of his time
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE MOTHER (on her daughter’s right). Not so long. But he ought to have got us a _________ by this
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE MOTHER (to Clara). Give it to me. (Clara parts reluctantly) Now. (To the girl) This is for your _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE MOTHER. But we must have a cab. We cant stand here until half-past eleven. It’s too _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE MOTHER. Oh, Freddy, there must be _________. You cant have tried
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE MOTHER. You really are very helpless, _________. Go again; and dont come back until you have found a cab
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The scene in which Eliza _________ appears in high society when she has acquired a correct accent but no notion of polite conversation is one of the funniest in English drama
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: THE _________. I heard you call him by it. Dont try to deceive me
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Then she kicks off her _________ and gets into bed without any further change
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: These are the only visible _________: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty’s needs
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They walked to the _________ when the rain stopped
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: This prodigal mood does not extinguish her gnawing sense of the need for economy sufficiently to prevent her from calculating that she can dream and plan in bed more cheaply and warmly than sitting up without a _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: You ought to be stuffed with nails, you ought. Take the whole blooming _________ for sixpence.
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: _________ Court, Drury Lane, next to Meiklejohn’s oil shop
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: _________ It’s really amazing. I havnt taken half of it in, you know
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel:The play is about the training Higgins gives to a _________ flower girl to enable her to pass as a lady and is also about the repercussions of the experiment’s success
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: PICKERING And I’ll pay for the _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (becoming excited as the idea grows on him). What is life but a _________ of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesnt come every day. I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (carried away). Yes: in six months — in three if she has a good ear and a quick tongue — I’ll take her anywhere and pass her off as _________. We’ll start today: now! this moment! Take her away and clean her, Mrs Pearce. Monkey Brand, if it wont come off any other way
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (continuing). She offers me two-fifths of her day’s income for a lesson. To-fifths of a millionaire’s income for a day would be somewhere about Ј60. It’s _________. By George, it’s enormous! it’s the biggest offer I ever had
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (suddenly resorting to the most thrillingly beautiful low tones in his best elocutionary style). By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of _________ shooting themselves for your sake before Ive done with you
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (tempted, looking at her). It’s almost irresistible. She’s so deliciously _________ — so horribly dirty —
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (walking up and down the room, rattling his keys and his cash in his pockets). You know, Pickering, if you consider a shilling, not as a simple shilling, but as a percentage of this girl’s _________, it works out as fully equivalent to sixty or seventy guineas from a millionaire
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (with professional exquisiteness of modulation). I walk over everybody! My dear Mrs Pearce, my dear Pickering, I never had the slightest _________ of walking over anyone. All I propose is that we should be kind to this poor girl. We must help her to prepare and fit herself for her new station in life. If I did not express myself clearly it was because I did not wish to hurt her delicacy, or yours
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Figure it out. A millionaire has about Ј150 a day. She _________ about half-a-crown
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (protesting extremely). Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I aint ..: I washed my face and hands afore I come, I did
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (rising, _________). Sixty pounds! What are you talking about? I never offered you sixty pounds. Where would I get—
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. Oh, I know whats right. A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for eighteenpence an hour from a real French _________. Well, you wouldn’t have the face to ask me the same for teaching me my own language as you would for French; so I wont give more than a shilling. Take it or leave it
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. Oh, you are real _________. Thank you, Captain
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE (placing herself behind Eliza’s chair) You mustnt speak to the _________ like that
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE (resolutely). You must be _________, Mr Higgins: really you must. You cant walk over everybody like this.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE (uneasy). Oh, dont say that, sir: theres more ways than one of turning a girl’s head; and nobody can do it better than Mr Higgins, though he may not always mean it. I do hope, sir, you wont encourage him to do anything _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Well, the matter is, sir, that you cant take a girl up like that as if you were picking up a _________ on the beach
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Why not! But you dont know anything about her. What about her _________? She may be married
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: PICKERING. Higgins: I’m interested. What about the ambassador’s garden party? I’ll say you’re the greatest teacher alive if you make that good. I’ll bet you all the _________ of the experiment you cant do it.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: PICKERING. Youre certainly not going to turn her head with _________, Higgins
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At the end of six months you shall go to Buckingham Palace in a carriage, beautifully _________. If the King finds out youre not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Eliza is taken upstairs to the third floor greatly to her surprise; for she expected to be taken down to the scullery. There Mrs _________ opens a door and takes her into a spare bedroom
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (deftly retrieving the handkerchief and intercepting her on her reluctant way to the door). Youre an _________ wicked girl. This is my return for offering to take you out of the gutter and dress you beautifully and make a lady of you
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (impatiently). Whats to become of her if I leave her in the _________? Tell me that, Mrs Pearce
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (snatching a chocolate cream from the piano, his eyes suddenly beginning to twinkle with mischief). Have some _________, Eliza
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (storming on). Take all her clothes off and burn them. Ring up Whiteley or _________ for new ones. Wrap her up in brown paper til they come
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS (wounded in his tenderest point by her insensibility to his elocution). Oh, indeed! I’m _________, am I? Very well, Mrs Pearce: you neednt order the new clothes for her. Throw her out
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havn’t any future to think of. No, Eliza: do as this lady does: think of other people’s futures; but never think of your own. Think of _________, and taxis, and gold and diamonds
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Listen, Eliza. I think you said you came in a _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Oh, pay her whatever is necessary: put it down in the housekeeping book. (Impatiently) What on earth will she want with money? She’ll have her _________ and her clothes. She’ll only drink if you give her money
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Pledge of good faith, Eliza. I eat one half: you eat the other. (Liza opens her mouth to retort: he pops the half chocolate into it). You shall have _________ of them, barrels of them, every day. You shall live on them
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Thats all right. Thank you, Mrs Pearce. Bundle her off to the _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. There! Thats all youll get out of Eliza. Ah-ah-ow-oo! No use explaining. As a military man you ought to know that. Give her her orders: thats enough for her. Eliza: you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to speak _________, like a lady in a florist’s shop.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. To get her to talk grammar. The mere _________ is easy enough
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Very well, then, what on earth is all this fuss about? The girl doesnt belong to anybody — is no use to anybody but me. (He goes to Mrs Pearce and begins coaxing). You can adopt her, Mrs Pearce: I’m sure a daughter would be a great amusement to you. Now dont make any more _________. Take her down-stairs; and –
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. We want none of your Lisson Grove prudery here, young woman. Youve got to learn to behave like a duchess. Take her away, Mrs Pearce. If she gives you any _________, wallop her
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. Well, when Ive done with her, we can throw her back into the gutter; and then it will be her own _________ again; so thats all right
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. You have, Eliza; and in future you shall have as many taxis as you want. You shall go up and down and round the town in a _________ every day. Think of that, Eliza
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: HIGGINS. You shall remain so, Eliza, under the care of Mrs Pearce. And you shall marry an officer in the Guards, with a beautiful moustache: the son of a marquis, who will disinherit him for marrying you, but will _________ when he sees your beauty and goodness—
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If you are not found out, you shall have a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer you will be a most ungrateful _________ girl; and the angels will weep for you.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If youre good and do whatever youre told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, and have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and take rides in taxis. If youre naughty and idle you will sleep in the back kitchen among the black _________, and be walloped by Mrs Pearce with a broomstick.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (almost in tears). I didn’t want no _________. I wouldnt have taken them (she throws away the handkerchief). I can buy my own clothes
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (as she goes out). Well, what I say is right. I wont go near the King, not if I’m going to have my head cut off. If I’d known what I was letting myself in for, I wouldnt have come here. I always been a good girl; and I never offered to say a word to him; and I don’t owe him nothing; and I dont care; and I wont be put upon; and I have my _________ the same as anyone else —
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (halting, tempted). How do I know what might be in them? Ive heard of _________ being drugged by the like of you
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (rising reluctantly and suspiciously). Youre a great bully, you are. I wont stay here if I dont like. I wont let nobody wallop me. I never asked to go to Bucknam Palace, I didnt. I was never in trouble with the police, not me. I’m a good _________ —
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (springing up and running between Pickering and Mrs Pearce for protection). No I’ll call the _________, I will
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (turning on him). Oh you are a brute. It’s a lie: nobody ever saw the sign of liquor on me. (To Pickering) Oh, sir: youre a _________: dont let him speak to me like that
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (whimpering). Nah-ow. You got no _________ to touch me
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA (who has disposed of the chocolate after being nearly choked by it). I wouldnt have ate it, only I’m too _________. to take it out of my mouth
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. (rising and squaring herself determinedly). I’m going away. He’s off his chump, he is. I dont want no balmies _________ me
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. I aint got no mother. Her that turned me out was my sixth stepmother. But I done without them. And I’m a good _________, I am
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. I aint got no parents. They told me I was _________ enough to earn my own living and turned me out
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. I dont want to talk grammar. I want to _________ like a lady in a flower-shop
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. No: I dont want no gold and no _________. I’m a good girl, I am. (She sits down again, with an attempt at dignity)
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. Oh, youve no feeling heart in you: you dont care for nothing but _________. (She rises and takes the floor resolutely) Here! Ive had enough of this. I’m going (making for the door). You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you ought
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. Well, what if I did? Ive as good a right to take a _________as anyone else
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: LIZA. Youre no _________, youre not, to talk of such things. I’m a good girl, I am; and I know what the like of you are, I do
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE (patiently). I think youd better let me speak to the girl properly in private. I dont know that I can take charge of her or consent to the arrangement at all. Of course I know you dont mean her any _________; but when you get what you call interested in people’s accents, you never think or care what may happen to them or you. Come with me, Eliza
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE (resolutely). You must be _________, Mr Higgins: really you must. You cant walk over everybody like this
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Mrs Pearce shuts the door; and _________’s plaints are no longer audible
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. But whats to become of her? Is she to be paid anything? Do be _________, sir
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Dont answer back, _________. You dont understand the gentleman. Come with me. (She leads the way to the door, and holds it open for Eliza)
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre _________ the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Stop, Mr Higgins. I wont allow it. It’s you that are _________. Go home to your parents, girl; and tell them to take better care of you
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Thats her _________ business, not yours, Mr Higgins
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. Will you please keep to the point, Mr Higgins. I want to know on what terms the girl is to be here. Is she to have any _________? And what is to become of her when you’ve finished your teaching? You must look ahead a little
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. You _________ now what comes of being saucy. (Indicating the door) This way, please
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: MRS PEARCE. _________, sir. You mustnt talk like that to her
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: PICKERING. Excuse me, Higgins: but I really must interfere. Mrs Pearce is quite right. If this girl is to put _________ in your hands for six months for an experiment in teaching, she must understand thoroughly what she’s doing
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: PICKERING. Very _________, Higgins; but not to the present point. (To Eliza). Miss Doolittle —
Choose the right preposition: He goes to the central window, through which with his back to the company, he contemplates the river and the flowers in Battersea Park _________ the opposite bank as if they were a frozen desert
Choose the right preposition: He goes _________ the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself
Choose the right preposition: He shakes Freddy’s hand, and almost slings him on to the ottoman _________ his face to the window; then comes round to the other side of it
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS (resignedly). It dont matter, anyhow. Sit _________
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS (rising and coming to her to coax her). Oh, thatll be all right, Ive taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders .. to her behavior
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS (staring at her). Ive seen you before somewhere. I havnt the ghost _________ a notion where: but Ive heard your voice. (Drearily) It doesnt matter. Youd better sit down
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS Am I? Very sorry…this. (Beaming suddenly) I suppose I am, you know. (Uproariously) Ha, ha
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS. Oh, have I been rude _________ you? I didnt mean to be
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS. Oh, I cant be bothered with young women. My idea of a lovable woman is somebody as like you _________ possible
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS. Well, here we are, anyhow! (He sits down on the ottoman next Mrs Eynsford Hill, on her left). And now, what the devil are we going to talk _________ until Eliza comes
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS. Well, it’s like this. She’s a common flower girl. I picked her _________ the kerbstone
Choose the right preposition: HIGGINS. You see, Ive got her pronunciation all right; but you have to consider the question… not only how a girl pronounces, but what she pronounces; and that’s where—
Choose the right preposition: I shall never get into the way _________ seriously liking young women: some habits lie too deep to be changed (Rising abruptly and walking about, jingling his money and his keys in his trouser pockets). Besides, theyre all idiots
Choose the right preposition: Mrs and Miss Eynsford Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered _________ the rain in Covent Garden
Choose the right preposition: MRS EYNSFORD HILL. Your celebrated son! I have _________ longed to meet you, Professor Higgins
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS (rising and making her sit down again). No, no. You couldnt have come more fortunately: we want you to meet a friend _________ ours
Choose the right preposition: Mrs Higgins looks _________ him, but controls herself and says nothing
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS. Henry, please! (He is about to sit on the edge of the table). Dont sit _________ my writing-table: youll break it
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS. Henry: you are the life and soul _________the Royal Society’s soirйes; but really youre rather trying on more commonplace occasions
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS. I’m sorry to say _________you that my celebrated son has no manners. You musnt mind him
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS. No. Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets (With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again). That’s a good boy. Now tell me _________ the girl
Choose the right preposition: MRS HIGGINS. Well, you never fall _________ love with anyone under forty-five. .
Choose the right preposition: She has a quick ear; and she’s been easier to teach than my middle-class pupils because she’s had to learn a lot…a complete new language. .
Choose the right preposition: She talks English almost _________ you talk French
Choose the right preposition: She’s to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody’s health — Fine day and How do you do, you know — and not to let herself go on things _________ general. That will be safe
Choose the right preposition: That’s a good boy. Now tell me _________ the girl
Choose the right preposition: The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much _________ home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty
Choose the right preposition: The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety .. straitened means.
Choose the right preposition: The parlormaid returns, ushering _________ Pickering
Choose the right preposition: When will you discover that there are some rather nice-looking young women _________ here
Choose the right preposition: With muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey _________ throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it. Mrs Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A drop of booze just takes that off and (to make) him happy
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: CLARA (rising). Oh yes: we (to have) three at-homes to go to still. Goodbye, Mrs Higgins. Goodbye, Colonel Pickering. Goodbye, Professor Higgins
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: CLARA (throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair). Oh, it’s all right, mamma, quite right. People will (to think) we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: CLARA. It’s all a matter of habit. Theres no right or wrong in it. Nobody (to mean) anything by it. And it’s so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she (to enter) that they all rise, quite fluttered. Guided by Higgins’s signals, she comes to Mrs Higgins with studied grace
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Fairly blue with it, she was. They all thought she (to be) dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: FREDDY (opening the door for her). Are you (to walk) across the Park, Miss Doolittle? If so—
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: FREDDY. The new small talk. You (to do) it so awfully well
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS (coming grimly at her from the divan, and accompanying her to the door). Goodbye. (to be) sure you try on that small talk at the three at-homes. Dont be nervous about it. Pitch it in strong
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS (hastily). Oh, thats the new small talk. To do a person in (to mean) to kill them
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS (rising hastily and running to Mrs Higgins). Here she (to be), mother. (He stands on tiptoe and makes signs over his mother’s head to Eliza to indicate to her which lady is her hostess)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS (turning hopefully). Yes, by George! We want two or three people. You ll (to do) as well as anybody else
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS. Cynical! Who the dickens (to say) it was cynical? I mean it wouldnt be decent
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS. What they think they (ought) to think is had enough. Lord knows: but what they really think would break up the whole show
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: HIGGINS. You (to see), we’re all savages, more or less. We’re supposed to be civilized and cultured — to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I (to do) think it horrible and unladylike. But this last is really too much
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA (looking round at him; taking the hint; and rising). Well: I (must) go
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA (piling up the indictment). What call would a woman with that strength in her (to have) to die of influenza? What become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Somebody pinched it; and what I say is, them as pinched it done her in
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA (Speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone). How do you do, Mrs Higgins? (She gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins, but is quite successful). Mr Higgins told me I (may) come
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA (with perfectly elegant diction). Walk! Not bloody likely. (Sensation). I am (to go) in a taxi. (She goes out)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA So (to please) to have met you. Goodbye. (She shakes hands with Mrs Higgins)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. Do I not! Them she lived with would have (to kill) her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. Not a bit. It never (to do) him no harm what I could see. But then he did not keep it up regular
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. Not her. Gin was mother’s milk to her. Besides, he’d (to pour) so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There (to be) no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. What is wrong with that, young man? I (to bet) I got it right
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: LIZA. Y-e-e-e-es, Lord love you! Why should she die of influenza? She come through diphtheria right enough the year before. I (to see) her with my own eyes
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MISS EYNSFORD HILL (who considers Higgins quite eligible matrimonially). I sympathize. I havnt any small talk. If people would only (to be) frank and say what they really think
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL (rising). Well, after that, I think it’s time for us to (go). Pickering and Higgins rise
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL (seriously). Oh! I(to be) sure you dont mean that, Mr Higgins
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL (suffering from shock). Well I really cant get (to use) to the new ways
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL (to Pickering). It’s no use. I (shell) never be able to bring myself to use that word
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL. I (to daresay) I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you wont begin using that expression, Clara
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HILL. I’m sure I hope it wont turn cold. Theres so much influenza about. It (to run) right through our whole family regularly every spring
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS EYNSFORD HlLL. But it cant (to have) been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat like that. It might have killed her
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS HIGGINS (cordially). Quite right: I’m very glad indeed to (see) you
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: MRS HIGGINS. Well, you (to know) my days
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: On the burst, as you, might (to say), from time to time. And always more agreeable when he had a drop in
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Pickering gasps and sits down. Freddy (to go) out on the balcony to catch another glimpse of Eliza
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: PICKERING. Dont ask me. Ive (to bee) away in India for several years; and manners have changed so much that I sometimes don’t know whether I’m at a respectable dinnertable or in a ship’s forecastle
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: PICKERING. Dont. It’s not compulsory, you (to know). Youll get on quite well without it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There’s lots of women (to have) to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Well, thats a mercy, anyhow. (Expansively) What I always say (to be)—
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he’d (to drink) himself cheerful and loving-like
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: You see, it’s like this. If a man (to have) a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he’s sober; and then it makes him low-spirited