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Pygmalion
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Literature
12th Grade
11/14/2010

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Nepomumuck
Definition
the interperter
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Dr.Higgins
Definition
student of dialects
Term
"You swear a great deal too much. I dont mind your damning and blasting, and what the devil and where
the devil and who the devil—"
Definition
Mrs. Pearce
Term
"What is life but a series of inspired follies? The
difficulty is to find them to do."
Definition
Dr.Higgins
Term
"I dont need less than a deserving man: I need more."
Definition
Alfred Doolittle
Term
"If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him
when he’s sober; and then it makes him low-spirited."
Definition
Eliza
Term
"No, you two infinitely stupid male creatures: the
problem of what is to be done with her afterwards."
Definition
Mrs. Higgins
Term
"I feel exactly as I felt before my first battle. It’s the
first time that frightens."
Definition
Pickering
Term
At the beginning of the play, Pickering
and Higgins are old friends and
colleagues.
Definition
False
Term
Eliza Doolittle says she intends to marry
Freddy.
Definition
False
Term
The professor’s vocation and avocation
are the same.
Definition
True
Term
All the women featured in the story are
against Higgins’ plan.
Definition
True
Term
Eliza is delighted with the idea of learning
to behave like a duchess.
Definition
False
Term
The professor succeeds in winning his
bet, although Eliza is very slow to learn.
Definition
False
Term
When the experiment is over, Pickering
wants to let Eliza go and find another
subject for his experiments.
Definition
False
Term
According to Shaw, if the professor had
had a different sort of mother, he would
have been more likely to fall in love with
Eliza.
Definition
True
Term
Alfred Doolittle succeeds in extorting ten
pounds from the professor.
Definition
False
Term
Higgins says he can "take a human being
and turn her into a quite different human
being by creating a new
Definition
manner for her
Term
Eliza says, "Now you’ve made a lady of
me I’m
Definition
not fit to sell anything
else."
Term
Mr. Doolittle is a
Definition
dustman.
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