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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the contrast between the Millers and Rome?
(a) Rome represents the modern and the Millers represent old customs
(b) Rome antiquities contrast to the nouveau riche Americans
(c) Rome is uncultured as opposed to the Miller's sophistication
(d) Rome contrasts with the antiquated Americans

2. What does Daisy say is a disagreeable thing for Winterbourne today?
(a) that she has no culture
(b) that she has no fashion sense
(c) that she is star struck
(d) that she and Giovanelli are in love

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

4. What does Winterbourne do instead of trying to let Daisy know his true feelings?
(a) ignores her completely
(b) brushes her off to talk with Giovanelli
(c) obsesses over her relationship with the other man
(d) insists that she apologize to Mrs. Walker

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

6. At what time does Winterbourne run into Daisy and Giovanelli again at the Colosseum a week later?
(a) near midnight
(b) at five in the afternoon
(c) about seven-thirty
(d) at two in the morning

7. What does Winterbourne finally decide about Daisy?
(a) she is not as dangerous as his aunt thinks
(b) she is not the nice girl he thought she was
(c) she really is engaged to Giovanelli
(d) she has completely lost her senses

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

9. What is the irony of the Americans disapproving of the outsiders?
(a) they disapprove of everyone
(b) they are ignorant of cultural differences
(c) they are long time Italian residents
(d) they are outsiders in Italy themselves

10. When have Italian men been calling for Daisy at her hotel?
(a) since last month
(b) late at night
(c) early in the morning
(d) after she was seen with Giovanelli

11. What does Mrs. Walker want Daisy to do?
(a) dismiss Giovanelli and return to her house
(b) bring winterbourne and go with her
(c) explain herslef
(d) leave with her in the carriage

12. What does the American community use to punish non-conformists?
(a) ostracism
(b) ridicule
(c) laughter
(d) lectures

13. Figuratively, what does Winterbourne choose to do with Daisy that night at the Colosseum?
(a) give her to Caesar
(b) teach her about impropriety
(c) rescue her from danger
(d) throw her to the lions

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

15. What does Daisy berate Winterbourne for?
(a) not standing up for her
(b) not minding his own business
(c) not calling at her hotel
(d) believing everything he hears

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Winterbourne warn about Daisy's behavior?

2. Why does Daisy say she must leave early?

3. What does flirtation mean to the American expatriates in Rome?

4. What has Daisy already noticed Mr. Giovanelli doing?

5. What does Mrs. Walker tell Mr. Winterbourne?

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