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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a further danger at night in the Colosseum?
(a) mosquitoes
(b) pitfalls
(c) the police
(d) muggers

3. What are the rumors about what Winterbourne is pursuing in Geneva?
(a) a new career
(b) a life of regret
(c) a clever foreign lady
(d) acceptance into a monastery

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

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

6. What has Daisy already noticed Mr. Giovanelli doing?
(a) giving her too much flattery
(b) staring at a carriage full of women
(c) trying to get money from her
(d) pretending that he is Italian royalty

7. What does Winterbourne say he had done to Daisy?
(a) contributed to the rumors about her
(b) slapped her face
(c) told her off
(d) an injustice

8. A year later back in Vevey what does Winterbourne confess to his aunt?
(a) he had finally caught Daisy in her lies
(b) he had forgotten what Daisy looked like
(c) he made a mistake with Daisy
(d) he had fallen in love with Daisy

9. Why do Winterbourne's and Daisy's paths gradually stop crossing?
(a) their mutual friends stop inviting her places
(b) she avoids Winterbourne
(c) Daisy travels to Paris
(d) Mrs. Costello insists on it

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

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

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

13. What rude comment does Randolph make to Mrs. Walker?
(a) that she has no sweets for him to eat
(b) that his father has more money than she does
(c) that their hotel rooms are bigger than hers
(d) that her dress looks frumpy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the contrast between the Millers and Rome?

2. What does Daisy admit to being?

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

4. A few days later at Mrs. Walker's party, how does Daisy show up?

5. What does the American community use to punish non-conformists?

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