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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Winterbourne learn at Daisy's funeral?
(a) that she was innocent
(b) that she was married
(c) that she was mentally unbalanced
(d) that she was younger than he thought

2. Why does Daisy say she must leave early?
(a) to walk at the Pincian Garden
(b) to get away from winterbourne
(c) to get something for her headache
(d) to pick up a new dress she bought

3. What does Mrs. Miller suppose Daisy's situation is?
(a) engaged and thus not in any danger
(b) the innocent victim of gossip
(c) carefree and able to take care of herself
(d) perfectly natural for any young girl

4. What is the symbolism of the Colosseum?
(a) abandonment and destruction
(b) antiquity and promise
(c) grandeur and happiness
(d) atrocious violence in the past

5. A few days later at Mrs. Walker's party, how does Daisy show up?
(a) with to many jewels
(b) with Giovanelli
(c) over dressed
(d) under dressed

6. Who arrives at the house Winterbourne is visiting?
(a) Daisy and her family
(b) Mrs. Miller, looking for Daisy
(c) Randolph, looking for sweets
(d) One of Daisy's Italian gentlemen

7. What does Winterbourne accept as the truth?
(a) the things Daisy says
(b) his observationsa
(c) the appearance of things
(d) the facts

8. When does Winterbourne decide emphatically that Daisy is not a nice girl?
(a) seeing her out with two men at the same time
(b) seeing her enter her hotel at one a. m.
(c) hiding herself behind her parasol
(d) seeing her at the Colosseum with Giovanelli

9. What comment of Winterbourne's does Daisy find disagreeable?
(a) that she and Giovanelli are in love
(b) that Giovanelli is too old for her
(c) that she cannot see the forest for the trees
(d) that she should be ashamed of herself

10. How do people like Mrs. Costello often make judgments of others?
(a) based on the facts
(b) based on gossip
(c) based on observation
(d) based on the Bible

11. What does Mrs. Costello suggest Daisy might allow herself to do?
(a) break Winterbourne's heart
(b) become a common street walker
(c) become engaged to Giovanelli
(d) become pregnant

12. What is the irony of Mrs. Costello?
(a) she is trying to deny her American past
(b) she has no particular religious beliefs
(c) she is American with an Italian last name
(d) she is more naive than Daisy

13. What does flirtation mean to the American expatriates in Rome?
(a) evidence of immoral behavior
(b) evidence of good breeding
(c) an assumption of engagement
(d) innocent games

14. In Book Two, what is Daisy doing?
(a) deliberately flaunting the Victorian social mores
(b) bending to the Victorian social mores
(c) trying to teach cultural differences to the Americans
(d) looking for an Italian husband

15. More so in Rome, what is the central theme of the novel?
(a) gossip
(b) appearance versus reality
(c) the mystery of Daisy
(d) outrageous behavior

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the era the navel DAISY MILLER takes place in?

2. Seen by Daisy as he is about to leave the Colosseum, what does she accuse Winterbourne of?

3. How does Daisy see her flirtations as being?

4. At what point does Winterbourne begin to doubt Daisy's innocence?

5. Where does Winterbourne next see Giovanelli?

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