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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. How is Daisy dressed as she comes down the stairs?
(a) in a revealing sun dress
(b) in a pair of pants and a blouse
(c) in an elegant traveling costume
(d) in jeans and a T-shirt

2. Under other circumstances, what might make Daisy acceptable to European society?
(a) her financial situation and the fact that she dresses in perfection
(b) her willingness to give generously and her appearance
(c) her education and the fact that she is beautiful
(d) her good taste in clothes and her descrition about men

3. What is symbolized by the ruins of the Chillon Castle?
(a) the inferiority of Europeans
(b) the decay of Europe
(c) Europe's immobile economy
(d) Europe's cultural heritage

4. What appears to be a double standard involving Winterbourne and his judgment of Daisy's morals?
(a) his own relationship in Geneva
(b) his eye for all the pretty ladies
(c) his attitude toward servants
(d) his pursuit of her although thinking her coarse

5. What do the Millers do with Eugenio that the Europeans do not understand?
(a) let him stay in their hotel room
(b) pay him too much
(c) treat him as family
(d) never take his advice

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes between Winterbourne's first meeting Daisy and their trip to the castle?

2. Why do they meet where he is waiting?

3. How does Daisy speak to her mother, the servant, and perfect strangers?

4. How does Winterbourne feel about the sail to the castle?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how one of the two main characters is introduced at the beginning of the novel.

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

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

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

5. Is there any indication in the first book that Winterbourne is concerned about Daisy's reputation?

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

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

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

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

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

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