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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Winterbourne arrive in Rome that winter?
(a) to travel on to Spain
(b) to see the colosseum
(c) to help find a school for Randolf
(d) to visit his aunt

2. What is it that Winterbourne no longer believes in about Daisy?
(a) her sense of style
(b) her indiscretion
(c) her intelligence
(d) her innocence

3. What is Daisy doing, according to Mrs. Costello, that disturbs Winterbourne?
(a) staying out late at night
(b) avoiding the Americans
(c) entertaining men
(d) behaving snobbishly

4. What does Mrs. Walker tell Mr. Winterbourne?
(a) something about Giovanelli
(b) more about Daisy's behavior
(c) the unsuitable places where Daisy has been seen
(d) what Daisy is doing to her mother

5. What does Winterbourne's behavior indicate to Daisy?
(a) that he is not interested
(b) that he is interested in her money
(c) that he wants to marry her
(d) that he hates the Italians

6. What does Daisy ask if Winterbourne remembers?
(a) the sugar he gave to Randolf
(b) the way she dressed for the steamer trip
(c) the day they walked in the garden
(d) the trip to the Chillon Castle

7. How does Daisy see her flirtations as being?
(a) evidence that nothing improper is going on
(b) the way a woman gets power over a man
(c) what is necessary to attract a man
(d) a serious habit she cannot break

8. How does Winterbourne defend Daisy?
(a) saying she is not cultured but not bad
(b) saying she is just trying to learn the language
(c) saying she is only naive
(d) saying she is the innocent victim of her beauty

9. What renews Winterbourne's interest in Daisy Miller?
(a) when he hears she has married Giovanelli
(b) when he learns that she has fallen ill
(c) when he hears she has broken up with Giovanelli
(d) when he hears she is leaving Rome

10. How does Daisy appear when Mrs. Walker refuses to speak to her?
(a) amused
(b) hurt
(c) angry
(d) indifferent

11. In Book One, how might Daisy be viewed?
(a) as learning how to test a foreign society
(b) as a proper girl misunderstood by the Americans
(c) as merely testing the social restrictions in Vevey
(d) as purely innocent but finding excitement

12. What kind of company does Mrs. Costello say Daisy has been keeping?
(a) low-class locals
(b) Italian royalty
(c) American expatriates
(d) married men

13. What does Daisy say she intends to do?
(a) to look for new men
(b) to find a local bar
(c) to sit in the garden and read
(d) to stroll and socialize with Mr. Giovanelli

14. How does Daisy respond to all the advice?
(a) she breaks down sobbing
(b) she walks away with Giovanelli
(c) she throwns a temper tantrum
(d) she meekly gets into the carriage

15. What does Winterbourne volunteer to do?
(a) walk with Daisy to her rendezvous
(b) call on Daisy the next day
(c) find Daisy a carriage
(d) hold the door open for Daisy to exit

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Winterbourne ask Daisy to do?

2. What does Mrs. Costello suggest Daisy might allow herself to do?

3. What request does Daisy make of Mrs. Walker?

4. What does Winterbourne agree that Daisy should do?

5. Who arrives at the house Winterbourne is visiting?

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