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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Winterbourne not visit his aunt in the hotel?
(a) she is ill and not receiving visitors
(b) she is out shopping
(c) she has a gentleman caller
(d) she has gone unexpectedly to Rome

2. How does Henry James describe Mrs. Miller?
(a) hawk-like and narrow of forehead
(b) small and spare with a wandering eye
(c) large and elegant
(d) overweight with a prominent nose

3. What bargain does Daisy strike to stop teasing Winterbourne?
(a) that he write letters to her from Geneva
(b) that he take her dancing that evening
(c) that he return to the hotel before she leaves for Rome
(d) that he come see her in Rome

4. What was Mrs. Miller unable to do?
(a) get Eugenio to order tea
(b) walk up the stairs
(c) put Randolph to bed
(d) straighten her shawl

5. What does the brother say Daisy's real name is?
(a) Annie P. Miller
(b) Dorothy G. Miller
(c) Marie S. Miller
(d) Elizabeth R. Miller

6. What is Daisy's younger brother's name?
(a) Rudolph G. Miller
(b) Randolph C. Miller
(c) Rudolph C. Miller
(d) Randolph G. Miller

7. How does Winterbourne feel about the sail to the castle?
(a) like a tiresome way to travel
(b) like a fish in a bowl
(c) like an escapade or adventure
(d) like a boy with a new toy

8. What does Daisy say about her brother?
(a) he is ugly
(b) he is well behaved
(c) he is tiresome
(d) he is not very bright

9. What in Daisy's action indicates that she does not anticipate doing?
(a) anything wrong
(b) anything non controversial
(c) anything secret
(d) anything moral

10. What is Daisy's brother's addiction?
(a) German beer
(b) cheese
(c) sweets
(d) hamburgers

11. What is the irony of Mrs. Costello's attitude?
(a) she was once just like Daisy before she married
(b) she is American, too, and her grandaughters are like Daisy
(c) she is looked down on by Europeans herself
(d) she judges Daisy without ever having met her

12. What are all the people doing as they pass out of the great hall?
(a) looking very hard
(b) trying to get out the door
(c) minding their own business
(d) talking about the weather

13. How does Mrs. Costello epitomize the double standard of the day when her nephew tells her about his outing with Daisy?
(a) she accuses her nephew of corrupting a girl
(b) she tells her nephew to do his work in secret
(c) she tells her nephew he cannot come to see her again
(d) she assigns guilt to Daisy

14. How does Winterbourne want to travel to the castle?
(a) by bicycle
(b) in a row boat
(c) in a carriage
(d) in a motor car

15. What does Winterbourne conclude he would deucedly enjoy?
(a) pushing Daisy into the lake
(b) pulling Mrs. Miller's hair
(c) going off with Daisy
(d) kicking Eugenio

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a central clash in the novel?

2. What seems to disappoint Daisy?

3. How does Mrs. Costello see Daisy?

4. How much time passes between Winterbourne's first meeting Daisy and their trip to the castle?

5. What theme of the novel runs through much of Henry James' novels?

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