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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocks Mrs. Costello when Winterbourne tells her where he was all afternoon?
(a) that he was alone with Daisy
(b) that the courier stayed out of sight
(c) that Mrs. Miller went with them on the steamer
(d) that he nearly fell from the steamer

2. What does Daisy say she has always had?
(a) a closet full of Paris dresses
(b) an ability to meet strangers
(c) a great deal of gentlemen's society
(d) a distaste for all things European

3. What does Daisy realize from Winterbourne's excuses about his aunt?
(a) that she doesn't want to meet Daisy
(b) that he has not spoken to his aunt
(c) that she is very ill
(d) that he doesn't really have an aunt in the hotel

4. What theme of the novel runs through much of Henry James' novels?
(a) war and peace
(b) money and society
(c) tension between the Americans and the Europeans
(d) age against youth

5. What circumstance about Winterbourne does Mrs. Costello think makes him naive about girls like Daisy?
(a) his weakness for anything that wears a skirt
(b) his moving only in the best society
(c) his limited education in Europe
(d) his being away from America for a long time

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Winterbourne meet outside the hotel?

2. What does Daisy suspect about Winterbourne's return to Geneva?

3. Why does Winterbourne not visit his aunt in the hotel?

4. Why does Mrs. Costello say about meeting Daisy Miller?

5. What is Daisy's brother's addiction?

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