based on George Bernard Shaw's DICTION in his play "Pygmalion".
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THE AIM OF PREPARING AND PRESENTING THIS TEST
The Pygmalion was written in 1912. The place of action was London. The idea is to find whether writers of today select the same words, which Shaw selected in his days.
If you answer this test before reading Pygmalion, and the words chosen by you coincide with those used by Shaw, you will have your diction similar to that of Shaw.
If you have answered this test with remembrance of the vocabulary of Pygmalion, then it will help you to assess yourselves to what extent you have understood Shaw's style in that play.
861. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
"...my father kept ______ gin down her throat til she came to so sudden that she bit the bowl off the spoon. ..."
a) dropping b)ladling c) pouring d)serving.
862. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
When it arrived, it contained nothing but a savagely _______ attack on a professor of language and literature whose chair Sweet regarded as proper to a phonetic expert only.(The word 'it' refers to an article received from the editor of a leading monthly.)
a) derisive b) insulting c) jeering d) mocking.
863. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
It is so intensely and deliberately _______ .(It here refers to the play Pygmalion. Shaw is writing in his preface).
a)academic b)advisory c)instructive d) didactic.
864. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
The modern ______'s daughter who fulfils her ambition by playing the Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at the Theatre Francais is only one of many thousands of men and women who have (shed) off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue.
a) babysitter b)caretaker c)concierge d) curator.
865. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
The modern (custodian)'s daughter who fulfils her ambition by playing the Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas at the Theatre Francais is only one of many thousands of men and women who have ______ off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue.
a) abandoned b)discarded c) jettisoned d) sloughed.
866. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
If Freddy had a bit of ______, he would have got
one at the theatre door.
a)aggressiveness b)gumption c)initiative d)resourcefulness.
867. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
"She thought you was a copper's ____, sir."(She here refers to the chief female character of the play, a flower girl).
a) agent b) constable c) informer d) nark.
868. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
"...He ain't a ____. He's a blooming busybody: that's what he is. I tell you, look at his boots. ..."
a) Detective b)Inspector c)Investigator d) tec.
869. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
He pats her kindly on the shoulder. She ______.
('He' here refers to the protagonist: Higgins. 'Her' here refers to the heroine Miss Eliza. The intended meaning is 'twist the body in pain').
a) distort b) shrink c) squirm d)writhe.
870. Supply the missing word in the following quote:
He'll have to pay for all those ______ you have been wearing today.
a)clothes b)coats c)dresses d)togs.
