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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is missing in Daisy that parallels what is missing in the American expatriates?
(a) the ability to gossip
(b) the ability to see things as they really are
(c) the ability to make judgments of other people
(d) the ability to stand up for oneself

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

3. What emotion prevents Winterbourne from going directly to see Daisy in Rome?
(a) anger
(b) empathy
(c) love
(d) jealousy

4. What is Daisy doing that makes Mrs. Walker say she has disgraced herself?
(a) being too friendly with all natives
(b) dressing prevocatively
(c) walking around with two men
(d) meeting an Italian man in public

5. Seen by Daisy as he is about to leave the Colosseum, what does she accuse Winterbourne of?
(a) going away without speaking to her
(b) spying on her
(c) being a snob like the other Americans
(d) being too afraid to fight for her

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

7. 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 at the Colosseum with Giovanelli
(c) hiding herself behind her parasol
(d) seeing her enter her hotel at one a. m.

8. What does Winterbourne warn Daisy that she is becoming?
(a) an old woman
(b) too sophistocated
(c) unwelcome among the Americans
(d) a typical expatriate

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Mrs. Costello say Daisy's activities are causing ?
(a) a bad impression to the Italians
(b) Italians to laugh at the Americans
(c) much gossip among the Americans
(d) danger to her health

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gossip does Winterbourne agree that Daisy is doing by her behavior?

2. What does Daisy admit to being?

3. Why is Daisy miffed at Winterbourne?

4. Why does Daisy say she must leave early?

5. Who does Mrs. Costello say has a good deal of manner and a wonderful mustache?

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