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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 is a central clash in the novel?
(a) youth versus age
(b) style versus garrishness
(c) American versus European culture
(d) men versus women

2. Why do they meet where he is waiting?
(a) Daisy made the arrangement
(b) Randolph hates the main hall
(c) he cannot go up to her room
(d) Daisy's mother is in the back garden

3. 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

4. What is the opinion of the locals and certain hotel guests about the Millers?
(a) they are brash, uneducated, and uncultivated
(b) they are polished and too superior for the locals
(c) they are accepted because of their money
(d) they are too hard to get to know

5. What habit does Daisy have that is different from European girls?
(a) she laughs loudly and calls attention to herself
(b) she holds her nose in the air and is unfriendly
(c) she keeps her eyes down and never looks at anyone
(d) she looks people directly in the eye without blushing

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Daisy's brother say his father is?

2. What surprises Winterbourne during the discussion about Chillon with Daisy's mother?

3. How does Winterbourne want to travel to the castle?

4. What is Daisy's response when Eugenio asks if she intends to go alone?

5. Who speaks from out of the shadows?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony of Mrs. Costello's nieces in America?

2. What is Mrs. Costello's admonition to her nephew about Daisy?

3. How does Miller set up a theme of tension between the Americans and the Europeans?

4. What is another clue Winterbourne seems to miss that Daisy is interested in him?

5. What is it in Daisy's conversation that Winterbourne misses that should have told him how Daisy is feeling about him?

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

7. How do even the women of this era accept the double standard of the sexes?

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

9. What is the overall objection to the Miller family?

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

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