<🔵 1.The Flower Girl: "There's manners f' yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad."
Freddy: "Sorry."
(a) Who is the Flower Girl? (1)
Answer: The Flower Girl is Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower seller.
(b) Why does she speak these words? (1)
Answer: Freddy accidentally knocks down her basket of flowers while rushing to find a cab.
(c) What does this incident reveal about Eliza's situation? (2)
Answer: Selling flowers is Eliza's only source of income. The loss of her flowers causes her great distress because it affects her livelihood.>
<🟢 2.The Mother: "Now tell me how you know that young gentleman's name."
The Flower Girl: "I didn't."The Mother: "I heard you call him by it."
(a) Who are the speakers? (1)
Answer: The speakers are Mrs. Eynsford Hill and Eliza Doolittle.
(b) Whose name is being referred to here? (1)
Answer: The name referred to is Freddy.
(c) How does Eliza explain that she knew the young man's name? (2)
Answer: Eliza explains that she had heard his mother call him "Freddy." She insists that she was not trying to deceive anyone.>
<🟠 3.The Flower Girl: "I take my Bible oath I never said a word."
The Note Taker: "Oh, shut up, shut up. Do I look like a policeman?"
(a) Why is the Flower Girl frightened? (1)
Answer: She thinks the Note Taker is a policeman collecting evidence against her.
(b) Who is the Note Taker? (1)
Answer: The Note Taker is Professor Henry Higgins, an expert in phonetics.
(c) Why does the Flower Girl mistake Higgins for a policeman? (2)
Answer: Higgins writes down everything she says in his notebook. Seeing this, Eliza fears that he is collecting evidence to accuse her of some offence.>
<🟣 4.The Note Taker: "Simply phonetics. The science of speech, that's my profession; also my hobby."
(a) Who is the Note Taker? (1)
Answer: The Note Taker is Professor Henry Higgins.
(b) What is phonetics? (1)
Answer: Phonetics is the scientific study of speech sounds and pronunciation.
(c) What does Higgins claim he can do with his knowledge of phonetics? (2)
Answer: Higgins says that he can identify a person's place of origin merely by listening to their speech. He even claims that he can transform the Flower Girl into a duchess within a few months.>
<🔴 5.The Gentleman: "I am Colonel Pickering. Who are you?"
The Note Taker: "Henry Higgins, author of Higgins's Universal Alphabet."
(a) Who is the Gentleman? (1)
Answer: The Gentleman is Colonel Pickering.
(b) Why has Pickering come to London? (1)
Answer: He has come from India to meet Professor Henry Higgins.
(c) Why is the meeting between Higgins and Pickering significant? (2)
Answer: Both are experts in phonetics and have admired each other's work. Their meeting leads to the famous experiment of transforming Eliza Doolittle into a refined lady.>