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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Daisy say Winterbourne has not spoken to her?
(a) twenty minutes
(b) half an hour
(c) an hour and a half
(d) an hour

2. What does not seem to concern Winterbourne?
(a) Daisy's younger brother.
(b) Daisy's wardrobe.
(c) Daisy's failure to fit into society
(d) Daisy's treatment of Eugenio.

3. What does Miss Featherstone ask Daisy about Americans?
(a) if they eat hotdogs for breakfast
(b) if they all live in hotels
(c) if they are all rich
(d) if they have schools

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

5. What does Daisy accuse Winterbourne of?
(a) being jealous
(b) being grave
(c) being silent
(d) being superior

6. 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

7. How does Mrs. Costello epitomize the double standard of the day when her nephew tells her about his outing with Daisy?
(a) she accuses her nephew of corrupting a girl
(b) she tells her nephew he cannot come to see her again
(c) she assigns guilt to Daisy
(d) she tells her nephew to do his work in secret

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

9. What is Winterbourne's suggestion to Daisy?
(a) that they have dinner together that evening
(b) that they visit the Chillon Castle together
(c) that they entertain her younger brother
(d) that they take a train trip to Geneva

10. What does Daisy say her mother doesn't like?
(a) wearing a shawl
(b) eathing Swiss food
(c) any of her gentleman friends
(d) traveling in Europe

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

12. Why does Daisy think they send all the pretty dresses from France to America?
(a) they don't wear dresses in Europe
(b) only Americans can afford them
(c) the ones in Europe are frightful
(d) there are no dress shops in Europe

13. 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

14. What appears to be a double standard involving Winterbourne and his judgment of Daisy's morals?
(a) his pursuit of her although thinking her coarse
(b) his own relationship in Geneva
(c) his attitude toward servants
(d) his eye for all the pretty ladies

15. What are all the people doing as they pass out of the great hall?
(a) talking about the weather
(b) minding their own business
(c) trying to get out the door
(d) looking very hard

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daisy want to go?

2. What habit of Randolph's is a great worry to his mother and Daisy?

3. What does Winterbourne offer to do to show his good intentions?

4. What in Daisy's action indicates that she does not anticipate doing?

5. What is the opinion of the locals and certain hotel guests about the Millers?

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