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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease is believed to be cause by night air?

2. What is missing in Daisy that parallels what is missing in the American expatriates?

3. When does Winterbourne decide emphatically that Daisy is not a nice girl?

4. What renews Winterbourne's interest in Daisy Miller?

5. When Winterbourne goes looking for Daisy and Giovanelli in the park, what does Daisy do when she spots him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Costello?

2. In what way does Daisy turn the tables on Winterbourne when he warns her about Giovanelli?

3. How does Daisy astonish Mrs. Walker that afternoon in her house?

4. Describe the coincidental meeting between Winterbourne and Daisy.

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

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

7. How does Giovanelli attempt to warn off Winterbourne who is walking toward him and Daisy?

8. What happens in the winter of the same year Winterbourne met Daisy?

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

10. How does Mrs. Miller show her own naivete regarding Giovanelli?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay entitled Why I Would Like to Visit Italy. Using some of the sites Daisy visits in Rome, give your reasons for wanting to visit there. Your essay should also mention Italian fashion and how it has influenced fashion in the USA.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the differences in European social order and the more democratic social order of the USA. Discuss the idea of social classes and give your opinion about such structure.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay expressing your ideas about judging books by their covers. Daisy Miller suffers from being judged unfairly by prudes and snobs. Express you opinion about similar things happening today.

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