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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daisy say about his grin?
(a) his ears are very near together
(b) he's not laughing with his eyes
(c) he's turned it upside down
(d) he looks like he ate the canary

2. How does Mrs. Costello see Daisy?
(a) as arrogant
(b) as coarse and a flirt
(c) as stupid and unstylish
(d) as a gold digger

3. What is Winterbourne's reason for being attracted to Daisy?
(a) she is an excellent conversationalist
(b) she has no morals whatsoever
(c) she is obviously a rich girl
(d) she is wonderfully pretty

4. What was Mrs. Miller unable to do?
(a) walk up the stairs
(b) put Randolph to bed
(c) get Eugenio to order tea
(d) straighten her shawl

5. What does Eugenio suggest to Daisy?
(a) that she make up her own mind
(b) that she go fetch another shawl
(c) that she not go out on a boat
(d) that she wear a life jacket

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eugenio react on hearing that Daisy is going to Chillon Castle with Winterbourne?

2. Where does Winterbourne wait for Daisy to join him for the trip to the castle?

3. What is the opinion of the locals and certain hotel guests about the Millers?

4. What is the mystery of the novel?

5. Why do they meet where he is waiting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the double standard about morality implied in the novel.

2. How does Winterbourne miss a third clue about Daisy's attraction to him?

3. Explain Winterbourne's attraction to Daisy.

4. What behavior on the part of the Millers accentuates the European-American conflict?

5. What is the basis on which the questions of Daisy's innocence is judged?

6. Describe Daisy's coquettish behavior with Winterbourne on the way to Chillon.

7. What shows Daisy's awareness of the American expatriates' snobbishness?

8. What seems to be a flirtatious pastime of Daisy's?

9. What is it that Daisy does that causes so much gossip among the Americans?

10. What is the contradiction in Daisy among the Americans?

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