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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) he cannot go up to her room
(b) Daisy made the arrangement
(c) Randolph hates the main hall
(d) Daisy's mother is in the back garden

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

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

4. What circumstance about Winterbourne does Mrs. Costello think makes him naive about girls like Daisy?
(a) his being away from America for a long time
(b) his weakness for anything that wears a skirt
(c) his moving only in the best society
(d) his limited education in Europe

5. How does Daisy speak to her mother, the servant, and perfect strangers?
(a) with a lot of curiosity
(b) with a kind of sweetness
(c) with a very loud voice
(d) with a shocking bluntness

6. What does Daisy say about his grin?
(a) he's not laughing with his eyes
(b) he's turned it upside down
(c) his ears are very near together
(d) he looks like he ate the canary

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

8. What does Daisy ask Winterbourne if he would do?
(a) take her out in a boat
(b) stop talking to her mother
(c) drive her to Geneva
(d) take her out dancing

9. How does Mrs. Costello see Daisy?
(a) as a gold digger
(b) as stupid and unstylish
(c) as coarse and a flirt
(d) as arrogant

10. What habit of Randolph's is a great worry to his mother and Daisy?
(a) he doesn't sleep
(b) he will only listen to the courier
(c) he talks too much
(d) he goes around breaking things

11. Why will it be easy for Winterbourne to visit Daisy in Rome?
(a) his job often takes him to Rome and Paris
(b) he can transfer his job to Rome whenever he wishes
(c) his aunt has an apartment where and he is planning to go
(d) he will have holiday time while she is in Rome

12. What does Daisy say about her brother?
(a) he is ugly
(b) he is tiresome
(c) he is well behaved
(d) he is not very bright

13. What secretly pleases Winterbourne?
(a) that she doesn't look at any men
(b) that people look at how pretty she is
(c) that no men try to speak to her
(d) that she makes such a spectacle of herself

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

15. Under other circumstances, what might make Daisy acceptable to European society?
(a) her financial situation and the fact that she dresses in perfection
(b) her good taste in clothes and her descrition about men
(c) her willingness to give generously and her appearance
(d) her education and the fact that she is beautiful

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daisy react to his departure news?

2. In Mrs. Costello's opinion, what may well-bred young ladies not do?

3. Who speaks from out of the shadows?

4. How does Henry James describe Mrs. Miller?

5. What could Daisy not say when introducing Winterbourne to her mother?

(see the answer keys)

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