Part A

What is a theme in the scene from Pygmalion?

People in positions of authority have the most to teach others.

For some people, good manners are impossible to learn.

A solid education guarantees that one will be successful.

With a willingness to learn, one can improve one's position in life.



Part B Which detail from the scene best supports the answer in Part A?

"She offers me two-fifths of her day's income for a lesson. Two-fifths of a millionaire's income for a day would be somewhere about 60 pounds. It's handsome."

"I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel."

"Good enough for ye—oo. Now you know, don't you? I'm come to have lessons, I am. And to pay for em too: make no mistake."

"A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for eighteenpence an hour from a real French gentleman. Well, you wouldn't have the face to ask me the same for teaching me my own language as you would for French..."