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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time is it when Daisy accepts the invitation to go for a row?
(a) nearly ten at night
(b) midnight
(c) eleven o'clock
(d) half past ten

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

3. What is Winterbourne's frame of mind as Daisy goes inside?
(a) amused
(b) puzzled
(c) relieved
(d) bitter

4. Under what pretense does Daisy not want him to come to Rome?
(a) to visit his aunt
(b) to look for a job
(c) to help find a school for Randolph
(d) to collect Italian art

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

6. What is Winterbourne's impression of himself?
(a) embarrassed to be with her
(b) interested in the direction of the castle
(c) waiting for her to speak first
(d) grinning from ear to ear

7. How does Henry James describe Mrs. Miller?
(a) small and spare with a wandering eye
(b) large and elegant
(c) overweight with a prominent nose
(d) hawk-like and narrow of forehead

8. 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

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

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

11. How does Daisy seem to Winterbourne during the trip?
(a) a mixture of sophistication and barbarianism
(b) a mixture of innocence and crudity
(c) a mixture of elegance and rustic behavior
(d) a mixture of youth and old age

12. What does Daisy do inside the castle?
(a) continues to berate Winterbourne
(b) ignores Winterbourne
(c) flirts with all the men
(d) slips away and return to the hotel

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

14. In Mrs. Costello's opinion, what may well-bred young ladies not do?
(a) speak before spoken to
(b) travel with a courier
(c) consort with strange men without an escort
(d) wear the latest fashions

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daisy say about his grin?

2. How does Winterbourne feel about the sail to the castle?

3. Why does Vevey appear to be more relaxed in social values than in other parts of Europe?

4. Why does Daisy think they send all the pretty dresses from France to America?

5. What does Miss Featherstone ask Daisy about Americans?

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