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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 has Mrs. Costello done after seeing the Millers in the hotel?
(a) sent them an invitation to tea
(b) had a migraine headache
(c) kept out of their way
(d) introduced herself

2. What circumstance about Winterbourne does Mrs. Costello think makes him naive about girls like Daisy?
(a) his limited education in Europe
(b) his moving only in the best society
(c) his weakness for anything that wears a skirt
(d) his being away from America for a long time

3. What is the mystery of the novel?
(a) where Mr. Miller is
(b) where Daisy was born
(c) who the woman in Geneva is
(d) the truth about Daisy's innocence

4. Why do Mrs. Costello and the Europeans not need physical proof of Daisy's indiscretions?
(a) the gossip is enough to brand her as immoral
(b) what she does in plain view is easy to tell what she does in private
(c) she tells on herself
(d) she appears to be pregnant

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Daisy seem to Winterbourne during the trip?

2. What does Daisy realize from Winterbourne's excuses about his aunt?

3. Under what pretense does Daisy not want him to come to Rome?

4. How does Daisy want to go?

5. What secretly pleases Winterbourne?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain Winterbourne's first impression of Daisy.

3. How does the courier Eugenio react to the suggestion that Daisy go to the Chillon Castle with Winterbourne?

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

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

6. What does Winterbourne observe about Daisy and her mother?

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

8. What makes Winterbourne so proud on the trip to Chillon?

9. What is Winterbourne's self-image on the trip?

10. What are the questions James raises about Daisy Miller?

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