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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is missing in Daisy that parallels what is missing in the American expatriates?
(a) the ability to make judgments of other people
(b) the ability to see things as they really are
(c) the ability to gossip
(d) the ability to stand up for oneself

2. At what time does Winterbourne run into Daisy and Giovanelli again at the Colosseum a week later?
(a) near midnight
(b) about seven-thirty
(c) at two in the morning
(d) at five in the afternoon

3. Who does Winterbourne warn about Daisy's behavior?
(a) Mrs. Miller
(b) Randolph
(c) Daisy, herself
(d) Mrs. Costello

4. What kind of company does Mrs. Costello say Daisy has been keeping?
(a) American expatriates
(b) married men
(c) Italian royalty
(d) low-class locals

5. What does Winterbourne volunteer to do?
(a) find Daisy a carriage
(b) call on Daisy the next day
(c) hold the door open for Daisy to exit
(d) walk with Daisy to her rendezvous

6. What is the ironic double standard at the end of the novel?
(a) Winterbourne refuses to admit his mistake
(b) Winterbourne is pursuing an American lady in Geneva
(c) Mrs. Costello refuses to see him again
(d) Winterbourne is having an affair with two women

7. A year later back in Vevey what does Winterbourne confess to his aunt?
(a) he made a mistake with Daisy
(b) he had forgotten what Daisy looked like
(c) he had finally caught Daisy in her lies
(d) he had fallen in love with Daisy

8. What renews Winterbourne's interest in Daisy Miller?
(a) when he hears she is leaving Rome
(b) when he learns that she has fallen ill
(c) when he hears she has broken up with Giovanelli
(d) when he hears she has married Giovanelli

9. What does Winterbourne tell Daisy about?
(a) the concert he where would like to take her
(b) the illness of Mrs. Costello
(c) the rumor of her engagement
(d) the joke he played on Mrs. Walker

10. More so in Rome, what is the central theme of the novel?
(a) the mystery of Daisy
(b) gossip
(c) appearance versus reality
(d) outrageous behavior

11. What is the era the navel DAISY MILLER takes place in?
(a) the Edwardian era
(b) the Revolutionary era
(c) the Victorian era
(d) the Renaissance era

12. What resolve does Winterbourne make about Daisy's meeting with Giovanelli?
(a) to pretend to leave and then follow them
(b) to show Daisy what kind of man Giovanelli is
(c) to challenge Giovanelli to a duel
(d) not to leave them alone together

13. What gossip does Winterbourne agree that Daisy is doing by her behavior?
(a) going too far
(b) protecting her innocence
(c) being discreet
(d) thumbing her nose at Americans

14. A few days later at Mrs. Walker's party, how does Daisy show up?
(a) with Giovanelli
(b) with to many jewels
(c) under dressed
(d) over dressed

15. What is the symbolism of the Colosseum?
(a) abandonment and destruction
(b) grandeur and happiness
(c) antiquity and promise
(d) atrocious violence in the past

Short Answer Questions

1. Seen by Daisy as he is about to leave the Colosseum, what does she accuse Winterbourne of?

2. What has Daisy already noticed Mr. Giovanelli doing?

3. At the Colosseum, what does Winterbourne give Daisy over to?

4. What request does Daisy make of Mrs. Walker?

5. How does Daisy respond to all the advice?

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