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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the mystery of the novel?
(a) where Mr. Miller is
(b) who the woman in Geneva is
(c) where Daisy was born
(d) the truth about Daisy's innocence

3. Why do Mrs. Costello and the Europeans not need physical proof of Daisy's indiscretions?
(a) she tells on herself
(b) the gossip is enough to brand her as immoral
(c) she appears to be pregnant
(d) what she does in plain view is easy to tell what she does in private

4. What does Winterbourne offer to do to show his good intentions?
(a) leave a security deposit
(b) hire a chaperon
(c) to introduce Daisy to his aunt
(d) take the little brother along

5. When does Winterbourne say he must return to Geneva?
(a) next week
(b) after they return from the castle
(c) tomorrow
(d) in two days

6. Who does Mrs. Costello say would never behave the way Daisy does?
(a) Swiss girls
(b) French debutantes
(c) her friends' daughters
(d) her granddaughters

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

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

9. What are Americans seen as failing to do?
(a) learning european languages
(b) eat with the right utensils
(c) properly appreciate Europe's ancient charms
(d) speak loudly in public

10. What does Eugenio suggest to Daisy?
(a) that she wear a life jacket
(b) that she not go out on a boat
(c) that she make up her own mind
(d) that she go fetch another shawl

11. Where does Daisy's brother say his father is?
(a) a better place than Europe
(b) doing buisness in Rome
(c) in California, USA
(d) upstairs in their hotel room

12. How much time passes between Winterbourne's first meeting Daisy and their trip to the castle?
(a) a week
(b) a fortnight
(c) one day
(d) two days

13. How does Daisy want to go?
(a) by bicycle
(b) by steamer
(c) on foot
(d) in a motor car

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

15. What shocks Mrs. Costello when Winterbourne tells her where he was all afternoon?
(a) that he was alone with Daisy
(b) that Mrs. Miller went with them on the steamer
(c) that he nearly fell from the steamer
(d) that the courier stayed out of sight

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Daisy's brother's addiction?

2. How does Henry James describe Mrs. Miller?

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

4. What does not seem to concern Winterbourne?

5. What does Miss Featherstone ask Daisy about Americans?

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