The Basics
Characters
Eliza
Straight From The Text

The Action
100
The playwright who created the play.
Who is Bernard Shaw
100
British Upper class bachelor who is very blunt and takes on Eliza as an "experiment." Starts off as a note-taker.
Who is Higgins.
100
The place where Eliza is from.
Where is Lisson Grove?
100
Who says, "Shut up, shut up. Do I look like a policeman?" to the flower girl?
Who is the Note-taker/Higgins?
100
What members of the Eynsford Hill family is searching for in a rain storm at the beginning of the play.
What is a taxi cab?
200
The number of acts in the play.
What is five.
200
Employee who scolds her boss from being "low class" and takes care of Eliza.
Who is Mrs. Pearce.
200
The accent that Eliza has and is trying to change.
What is cockney?
200
Who does Higgins refer to as a "draggletailed guttersnipe?"
Who is Liza?
200
Who runs into the Flower Girl and destroys her flowers?
Who is Freddy?
300
This "class" is at the base of the play and deals with how we are separated by money and other factors in life.
What is "social class".
300
The young rich man who ends up marrying someone he met "on the street" after seeing her later in a different setting.
Who is Freddy?
300
An expression she uses alot before her speech changes. It is one word and begins with a "G".
What is Garn!
300
Who says, "She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her."
Who is Mrs. Higgins?
300
What Higgins demands be done to Eliza clothes at the beginning of the transformation.
What is burned?
400
Eliza goes through a transformation to change from a "flower girl" to this type of woman.
What is a duchess?
400
A sneaky little man who goes from being a hustler to a wealthy man who uses his voice, also happens to be Eliza's close relative.
Who is Doolittle?
400
What she regrets in Act IV after returning from the garden party.
What is being transformed into "a lady."
400
What did Eliza do right before telling Higgins, "Because I wanted to smash your face. I'd like to kill you, you selfish brute!"
What is throw a pair of slippers at him.
400
Now that he has found wealth, who does Doolittle blame for "ruining" him?
Who is Higgins?
500
The film musical version of this is play.
What is My Fair Lady.
500
A retired British officer from India who happens to be one of the few people who really respects Eliza.
Who is Colonnel Pickering?
500
How she decides to get "revenge" on Higgins in Act V after he treats her poorly.
What is start her own business teaching language/phonetics?
500
Higgins says, "Oh don't bother. She'll buy em all right enough"; vat the end of Act V. What is one thing she is suppose to bring?
What is ham, cheese, gloves, number eights, or a tie.
500
Where does Higgins tell Eliza to go back to?
Where is the gutter?