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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Daisy dressed as she comes down the stairs?
(a) in a pair of pants and a blouse
(b) in jeans and a T-shirt
(c) in a revealing sun dress
(d) in an elegant traveling costume

2. Who speaks from out of the shadows?
(a) Eugenio
(b) Randolph
(c) Mrs. Costello
(d) the concierge

3. Why does Mrs. Costello say about meeting Daisy Miller?
(a) that the girl is common and thus not fit company
(b) that the girl is too young to meet her
(c) that the girl should invite her mother along
(d) that the girl is old enough to take care of herself

4. Why do they meet where he is waiting?
(a) he cannot go up to her room
(b) Randolph hates the main hall
(c) Daisy made the arrangement
(d) Daisy's mother is in the back garden

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mrs. Miller unable to do?

2. What is Winterbourne's suggestion to Daisy?

3. What does Winterbourne say he was doing while not talking with Daisy?

4. What does Daisy Miller tell Winterbourne about her trip?

5. What does Daisy say her mother doesn't like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Winterbourne's self-image on the trip?

2. What is it that Daisy does that causes so much gossip among the Americans?

3. What is the contradiction in Daisy among the Americans?

4. What behavior on the part of the Millers accentuates the European-American conflict?

5. What is it in Daisy's conversation that Winterbourne misses that should have told him how Daisy is feeling about him?

6. What shows the ineptitude of Mrs. Miller as a mother?

7. What are some of the Miller family behaviors that appear objectionable to the American expatriates?

8. Explain Winterbourne's first impression of Daisy.

9. Explain Winterbourne's attraction to Daisy.

10. What is the irony of Mrs. Costello's nieces in America?

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