MCQs | Pygmalion Play by George Bernard Shaw
Between 1879 and 1882 shaw wrote:
(a) Four Novels
(b) Three Novels
(c) Five Novels
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four Novels
“Immaturity” was Shaw’s:
(a) Second Novel
(b) First Novel
(c) Last Novel
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: First Novel
“Immaturity” deals with the problem of:
(a) Politics
(b) Religion
(c) Marriage
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Marriage
Shaw wrote:
(a) Five Novels
(b) Four Novels
(c) Three Novels
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five Novels
Shaw read “Max’s Das Capital” in the:
(a) British
(b) French Museum
(c) German Museum
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: British
Through journalism, in ten years Shaw earned only:=
(a) £8
(b) £7
(c) £6
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: £6
About whose speech, Shaw declared that it “changed the whole current of my life”:
(a) Sidney Webb
(b) Samuel Butler
(c) Henry George
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Henry George
Shaw went to a meeting addressed by Henry George in:
(a) 1885
(b) 1883
(c) 1884
(d) 1882
Question’s Answer: 1882
Shaw was elected the executive of the Fabian Society in:
(a) 1888
(b) 1886
(c) 1887
(d) 1885
Question’s Answer: 1885
Nepommuck was sure that Eliza was:
(a) English
(b) Princes
(c) Hungarian
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hungarian
Eliza left Prof. Higgins’s house because:
(a) She felt insulted at Pickering and Prof. Higgins’s negligence of her
(b) She stole money and ran away
(c) She wanted to marry Prof.Higgins
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: She felt insulted at Pickering and Prof. Higgins’s negligence of her
Which is decidedly Shaw’s best novel?
(a) Cashel Byron’s Profession
(b) An Unsocial Socialist
(c) Love Among the Artist
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Cashel Byron’s Profession
Where did Eliza go after leaving Prof.Higgins’s house?
(a) At Mrs. Higgins’s house
(b) At her father’s home
(c) At her own home
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: At Mrs. Higgins’s house
The hostess of the party thought that Eliza was:
(a) Queen
(b) At Least a Princess
(c) Duchess
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: At Least a Princess
Eliza wanted to marry:
(a) Henry Higgins
(b) Freddy
(c) Pickering
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Freddy
Eliza said that after marrying Freddy she would adopt the profession of:
(a) Selling flowers
(b) Being assistant to the hairy-faced Hungarian
(c) Teacher of Phonetic like Prof.Higgins
(d) Both (b) & (c)
Question’s Answer: Both (b) & (c)
The last complete play of Shaw was:
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Buoyant Billions
(c) Man and Superman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Buoyant Billions
An old lady at the party, remarked that Eliza spoke:
(a) Exactly like Queen Victoria
(b) Like Queen Anne
(c) Like Queen Elizabeth
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Exactly like Queen Victoria
Which play of Shaw was banned?
(a) Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(b) Candida
(c) Man and Superman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Shaw got married in:
(a) 1897
(b) 1898
(c) 1899
(d) 1896
Question’s Answer: 1898
Mrs. Shaw pass away in:
(a) 1943
(b) 1942
(c) 1941
(d) 1944
Question’s Answer: 1943
Shaw wrote his last complete play at the age of:
(a) 90
(b) 100
(c) 96
(d) 91
Question’s Answer: 91
Shaw did not write a new play during:
(a) 1914-18
(b) 1914-17
(c) 1914-19
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1914-18
Shaw’s play ‘Major Barbara’ is about:
(a) Politics
(b) Money
(c) Marriage
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Money
Shaw was:
(a) Romantic
(b) Indifferent to Romance
(c) Anti-Romantic
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Anti-Romantic
Which plays were Shaw’s first stage successes?
(a) Arms and the Man and Candida
(b) Pygmalion and Man and Superman
(c) Man and Superman and Candida
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Arms and the Man and Candida
What is the sub-title given to “Pygmalion” by Shaw?
(a) An Irony
(b) A.Satire
(c) A Romance
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A Romance
Shaw’s play “Getting Married” was published in which year?
(a) 1906
(b) 1907
(c) 1909
(d) 1908
Question’s Answer: 1908
Shaw pass away at:
(a) His home
(b) Church
(c) Hospital
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: His home
Shaw’s play “The Apple Cart” was published in which year?
(a) 1929
(b) 1928
(c) 1927
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: 1929
Shaw had got sound knowledge of contemporary economic matter by:
(a) 1893
(b) 1891
(c) 1892
(d) 1890
Question’s Answer: 1890
Shaw’s another volume of plays appeared:
(a) Three years later
(b) Two years later
(c) Four years later
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Three years later
In whose writing Shaw saw an escape from the Darwinian Theory?
(a) Ibsen
(b) Swift
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Samuel Butler
Shaw published the first collection of plays in:
(b) 1898
(a) 1900
(c) 1899
(d) 1897
Question’s Answer: 1897
Shaw’s first collection of plays was published in which year?
(a) Four Volumes
(b) Three volumes
(c) Two Volumes
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Two Volumes
Bernard Shaw was born in:
(a) 1856
(b) 1857
(c) 1858
(d) 1859
Question’s Answer: 1856
His father’s family claimed an ancient:
(a) Spanish Origin
(b) English Origin
(c) Scottish Origin
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Scottish Origin
Bernard Shaw’s father became in middle life, a:
(a) Land Owner
(b) Grain Merchant
(c) Writer
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Grain Merchant
His father’s family previously had lived in:
(a) Derbyshire
(b) Hampshire
(c) California
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Hampshire
Shaw’s mother was the daughter of:
(a) Doctor
(b) Merchant
(c) Irish Country Gentleman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Irish Country Gentleman
As a boy, Shaw loved to visit frequently the:
(a) irish National Museum
(b) Irish National Gallery
(c) Irish National Library
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Irish National Gallery
Shaw had a sound knowledge of some of the great composers by the time when:
(a) He was sixteen
(b) He was fifteen
(c) He was twenty
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: He was fifteen
His father’s family had been small landowners in:
(a) Derbyshire
(b) London
(c) Ireland
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Ireland
Shaw’s mother was:
(a) Twenty years younger than her husband
(b) Fifteen years younger than her husband
(c) Ten years younger than her husband
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty years younger than her husband
Shaw’s mother was:
(a) A Doctor
(b) A Writer
(c) An Opera Singer
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: An Opera Singer
Christian faith was:
(a) Rejected by Shaw
(b) Accepted by Shaw
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Rejected by Shaw
Who was Henry Higgins in Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion?
(a) Professor of Phonetics
(b) Professor of Physics
(c) Professor of English Literature
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Professor of Phonetics
Who was elderly gentleman in “Pygmalion” we are introduced in the first act?
(a) Freddy
(b) Henry Higgins
(c) Colonel Pickering
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Colonel Pickering
Shaw worked as a clerk then cashier for:
(a) Four years
(b) Three years
(c) Two years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four years
Shaw went to London to join his mother in:
(a) 1888
(b) 1877
(c) 1876
(d) 1889
Question’s Answer: 1876
Shaw’s mother went to England when he was:
(a) Sixteen
(b) Fifteen
(c) Seventeen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Fifteen
Where was Colonel Pickering posted?
(a) India
(b) Pakistan
(c) New York
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: India
Which book was proudly written by Col Pickering?
(a) Spoken dialects
(b) Religion of India
(c) Spoken Sanskrit
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Spoken Sanskrit
The rent of Eliza’s home was:
(a) Ten Shilling a month
(b) Five Shilling a Month
(c) Four Shilling a week
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Four Shilling a week
Who was flower girl?
(a) Clara Hill
(b) Mrs.Pearce
(c) Eliza
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eliza
Higgins had boasted that he would be able to teach Eliza:
(a) Within Six Months
(b) Within Five Months
(c) Within One year
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Within Five Months
How many vowel sounds Pickering was able to pronounce?
(a) Twenty-Two
(b) Twenty-Four
(c) Twenty-Three
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Twenty-Four
By whom Higgins was challenged to teach and change Eliza’s manners entirely?
(a) Pickering
(b) Freddy
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pickering
How much money Eliza offered to pay to Prof. Higgins as his fee to teach her?
(a) Three shillings per lesson
(b) Two shillings per lesson
(c) One shilling per lesson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One shilling per lesson
To whom, Prof.Higgins advised to adopt Eliza as her daughter?
(a) Mrs. Pearce
(b) Pickering
(c) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Pearce
Who was Mrs. Pearce?
(a) Professor Higgins’s housekeeper
(b) Eliza’s mother
(c) Professor Higgins’s wife
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Professor Higgins’s housekeeper
Who was Alfred Doolittle?
(a) Eliza’s Father
(b) Eliza’s Uncle
(c) Eliza’s Brother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eliza’s Father
How much money Doolittle begged from Higgins?
(a) Ten Pounds
(b) Six Pounds
(c) Five Pounds
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Five Pounds
How many vowel sounds Professor Higgins was able to pronounce?
(a) One Fifty
(b) One hundred and thirty
(c) One hundred
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: One hundred and thirty
Shaw’s play’ “John Bull’s Other Island” appeared in:
(a) 1902
(b) 1903
(c) 1905
(d) 1904
Question’s Answer: 1904
Shaw’s Man and Superman’ was published in which year?
(a) 1902
(b) 1905
(c) 1904
(d) 1903
Question’s Answer: 1903
Shaw’s play “Man and Superman” proved tremendous success especially in:
(a) New York
(b) Spain
(c) Ireland
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: New York
Shaw annexed the Nobel Prize for Literature in:
(a) 1924
(b) 1927
(c) 1926
(d) 1925
Question’s Answer: 1925
Shaw’s last unfinished play was given to:
(a) The British Museum
(b) The American Museum
(c) The Spanish Museum
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The British Museum
Shaw pass away in:
(a) 1950
(b) 1940
(c) 1951
(d) 1960
Question’s Answer: 1950
Shaw dominated the English Literature for:
(a) Over sixty years
(b) Fifty-years
(c) Forty years
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Over sixty years
“Shaw has been for modern Britain what Socrates was for ancient Greece”. The above quoted remark about Shaw was given by:
(a) G. K. Chesterton
(b) Maurice Colbourne
(c) A. C. Ward
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: A. C. Ward
The subject of Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” is:
(a) Romantic Conception of the Soldier
(b) Prostitution
(c) Marriage
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Romantic Conception of the Soldier
Who is the author of the ‘Pygmalion”?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Ibsen
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Bernard Shaw
Which is not a play by Shaw?
(a) Waiting for Godot
(b) Pygmalion
(c) Man and Superman
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Waiting for Godot
Shaw’s play ‘Mr. Warren’s Profession’ deals with:
(a) Slum Landlordism
(b) Prostitution
(c) Romantic Conception of the Soldier
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Prostitution
Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island” deals with:
(a) Prostitution
(b) Politics
(c) Irish Problems
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Irish Problems
Who was Mrs. Higgins?
(a) Professor Higgins Grandmother
(b) Eliza’s Mother
(c) Professor Higgins Mother
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Professor Higgins Mother
Who is the heroine of Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”?
(a) Eliza
(b) Catherine
(c) Clara hill
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Eliza
Where did Eliza express to go after wearing the Japanese dress?
(a) Tower of London
(b) Tottenham Court Road
(c) British Museum
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Tottenham Court Road
What does Mrs. Higgins “At Home Day” mean?
(a) She received her friends that day
(b) She remained alone at home that day
(c) She went for picnic that day
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: She received her friends that day
Why had Mrs. Higgins forbidden her son to call on her?
(a) Because he was ill-mannered
(b) Because he swore dreadfully
(c) Both (a) & (b)
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Both (a) & (b)
Nepommuck was popularly known as hairy faced Dick:
(a) Because of his large moustaches and beard
(b) Because he behaved awkwardly
(c) Because he a large face
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Because of his large moustaches and beard
Nepommuck was able to understand and speak:
(a) Thirty-two Languages
(b) Thirty-one Languages
(c) Thirty Languages
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Thirty-two Languages
How Mr. Eynsford was called by his mother and sister?
(a) Tom
(b) Freddy
(c) Henry
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Freddy
Where did Colonel Pickering and Prof. Higgins také Eliza to test her ability?
(a) The Chief Minister’s Party in London
(b) The Prime Minister’s Party in London
(c) The Ambassador’s garden party in London
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Ambassador’s garden party in London
At the party, Prof. Higgins met Nepommuck who was his:
(a) Cousin
(b) Pupil
(c) Friend
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pupil
How old was Mrs. Higgins?
(a) 55 Years old
(b) 70 Years old
(c) 65 Years old
(d) 60 Years old
Question’s Answer: 60 Years old