1. What is the profession of the main character Henry Higgins? **Professor of phonetics**
2. Where does the story take place? **London, England**
3. What is Eliza Doolittle's occupation at the beginning of the play? **Flower girl**
4. Who agrees to help fund Higgins's experiment with Eliza? **Colonel Pickering**
5. What is Alfred Doolittle's occupation? **Dustman**
6. Who is Higgins's mother? **Mrs. Higgins**
7. What does Higgins believe determines social class? **Appearance, manners, speech**
8. Where does Higgins first encounter Eliza? **Covent Garden market**
9. What does Higgins want to prove he can turn Eliza into? **A lady**
10. Who falls in love with the transformed Eliza at a ball? **Freddy Eynsford-Hill**
11. What does Higgins use to help train Eliza's pronunciation? **"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"**
12. Where does Eliza go after her transformation is complete? **The Embassy Ball**
13. What does Eliza call Higgins at the end of the play? **Professor Higgins**
14. Which character disapproves of Higgins's treatment of women? **Mrs. Pearce**
15. What is Pickering's profession? **Linguist**
16. Who does Eliza successfully fool at the ball? **The Ambassador**
17. What does Eliza rebel against Higgins with at the end? **"Where's my slippers? Where's my dressing gown?"**
18. What is the setting of the play? **London, England in 1912**
19. What does Higgins compare Eliza's potential to? **An ivy plant needing trimming**
20. Who wrote Pygmalion? **George Bernard Shaw**
21. What does Eliza sell at the beginning of the play? **Flowers**
22. What does Higgins celebrate after the ball? **"By George, Eliza, I said I'd do it, and now I've done it!"**
23. What does Higgins rely on for warmth and inspiration? **The fireplace**
24. What does the fireplace represent symbolically? **The transformative power of knowledge**
25. Who is disappointed by her son's behavior toward women? **Mrs. Higgins**
26. What does Eliza utter that upsets Higgins early on? **"Depressing and disgusting sounds"**
27. Who agrees to help fund the experiment? **Colonel Pickering**
28. What does Eliza utter famously when asked what she did to Colonel Pickering? **"I washed him."**
29. How does Eliza descend the steps at the beginning of the play? **She descends**
30. How does Eliza ascend the steps by the end? **She ascends**
31. Who frames the play as a debate or argument? **Shaw in his preface**
32. What does Higgins want to prove he can do to anyone? **Make them present as high class**
33. What does Higgins believe can define a lady? **Treatment, not behavior**
34. What does Eliza gain from learning Higgins's tongue twister? **A distinguished mode of speech**
35. What does Shaw use Eliza to represent in the argument? **The litigant finding her voice**
36. What does Eliza stand up to Higgins with at the end? **Her independence and voice**
37. What are flowers a symbol of in Eliza's journey? **Her natural, unrefined state**
38. What does Higgins say differentiates a lady from a flower girl? **How she is treated**
39. Who does Eliza successfully fool at the embassy ball? **The ambassador**
40. What does the ascent/descent of steps track symbolically? **Eliza's social mobility**
41. Where is the play mostly set? **London**
42. What does Eliza become by the end through Higgins' lessons? **A lady**
43. Who falls in love with the transformed Eliza? **Freddy Eynsford-Hill**
44. What is Eliza's father's occupation? **Dustman**
45. What is Higgins' profession? **Professor of phonetics**
46. What does Higgins use to train Eliza's speech? **The rain in Spain tongue twister**
47. Who wrote the play Pygmalion? **George Bernard Shaw**
48. What does Higgins believe defines class? **Speech, manners, appearance**
49. What does Eliza do at the beginning of the play? **Sells flowers in Covent Garden**
50. What event does Eliza attend as a transformed lady? **The embassy ball**
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