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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. What does Mrs. Walker want Daisy to do?
(a) leave with her in the carriage
(b) dismiss Giovanelli and return to her house
(c) explain herslef
(d) bring winterbourne and go with her

2. Who discusses Daisy's exploits but without the disapproving tone of Mrs. Costello?
(a) Mrs. Miller
(b) Eugenio
(c) Mr. Loren
(d) Randolph

3. What does Winterbourne warn Daisy that she is becoming?
(a) unwelcome among the Americans
(b) an old woman
(c) a typical expatriate
(d) too sophistocated

4. Figuratively, what does Winterbourne choose to do with Daisy that night at the Colosseum?
(a) rescue her from danger
(b) give her to Caesar
(c) throw her to the lions
(d) teach her about impropriety

5. What does Daisy admit to being?
(a) a devoute Christian
(b) older than she looks
(c) an uncultured American girl
(d) a fearful, frightful flirt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Walker tell Mr. Winterbourne?

2. What does Winterbourne finally decide about Daisy?

3. What does Daisy say she intends to do?

4. What is the symbolism of the Colosseum?

5. Who arrives at the house Winterbourne is visiting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Walker's request that he stop seeing Daisy?

2. What is the admonition Winterbourne receives from his aunt?

3. How does Henry James satirize Americans in the scene at Mrs. Walker's afternoon gathering?

4. What does Mrs. Walker say Daisy has done that is unacceptable?

5. How do Winterbourne's and Daisy's meetings taper off?

6. What shows the determination of Mrs. Walker to save the reckless American girl?

7. What confirmation about Daisy's innocence does Winterbourne finally receive?

8. Describe the point at which Daisy and Winterbourne come into conflict.

9. At Mrs. Walker's party, how does Winterbourne alter to stop Daisy's behavior?

10. What does Daisy say she is about to do that scandalizes the Americans at Mrs. Walker's house?

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