Paired Text - Sirius

Use Pygmalion:

The opening stage direction describing Liza's entrance suggest that HIggins -

• has an attraction to the young woman

• is lacking any intellectual curiosity

• can be impatient and judgmental

• can tell that she has changed overnight

Use Pygmalion:

The lines "Don't you be so saucy" and "Did you tell him I come in a taxi?" suggest that Liza

• is not intimidated by her superiors yet tries to impress them

• actually has proper grammar and knows the proper words

• is overwhelmed and afraid yet still wants to trick Higgins

• basically doesn't need lessons and wants something else instead

Read the following lines:

A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for eighteenpenace an hour from a real French gentleman. Well, you wouldn't have the nerve to ask me the same for teaching me my own languages as you would for French; so I won't give more than a shilling.

These lines help the audience understand that Liza is-

• familiar with tutoring and education services

• good with money and estimating the value for services

• wary and suspicious that Higgins will try to cheat her

• clever in her own way and practical

Use Pygmalion:

In paragraph 23, the word sniveling means

• insulting and resisting

• swearing and insulting

• crying and complaining

• arguing and criticizing

Read the following lines:

"Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop assistant, which requires better English. That's the sort of thing I do for commercial millionaires."

Higgins speaks these lines in the first act. Which of these and example of dramatic irony in the second act?

• Mrs. Pearce scolding Liza for talking to Higgins.

• Liza mentioning her friend learning French.

• Pickering discussing the ambassador's garden party.

• Higgins sending her away without talking to her.

Use Pygmalion:

Which of the following common motifs did the playwright use in this scene?

• The little guy rises up to defeat a much stronger foe.

• Someone who gains good fortune eventually loses it.

• An expert creates a masterpiece from raw materials.

• Two people from different worlds learn to love each other.

Use Siddhartha:

Read these lines from paragraph 9:

In the evening, after the hour of contemplation, Siddhartha spoke to Govinda: "Early tomorrow morning, my friend, Siddhartha will go to the Samanas. He will become a Samana.

Why does Siddhartha talk to Govinda so strangely in these lines?

• He thinks that Govinda is actually someone else named Siddhartha who he is talking about.

• He is referring to himself as a separate person because he has already made up his mind to change.

• He has been contemplating a very long time and has lost his bearings.

• He is talking about a friend of his who also has the name Siddhartha and is joining the Samanas.

Use Siddhartha:

Why does Siddhartha stand in the chamber all night long?

• He is demonstrating to his father that that he has made up his mind.

• He is mediating in some kind of trance as the Samanas often do.

• He having a fit and trying to hurt his father by hurting himself.

• He is frozen with fear of what will happen if his doesn't approve.

Use Siddhartha:

The tone of this selection can best be described as-

• angry

• adventurous

• fanciful

• controlled

Use Siddhartha:

One theme explored in the passage is that we must -

• do what we have to do even if opposed

• act on fulfilling our dreams even if we fail

• always do our best even if the odds are against us

• give every effort even if success seems futile