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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. At the party, what does Daisy seem to prefer?
(a) showing off her new engagement ring
(b) spending more time with Winterbourne than Giovanelli
(c) talking with the other Americans
(d) asking the women where to buy new fashions

2. Who does Winterbourne warn about Daisy's behavior?
(a) Randolph
(b) Mrs. Miller
(c) Daisy, herself
(d) Mrs. Costello

3. At the Colosseum, what does Winterbourne give Daisy over to?
(a) the advances of Mr. Giovanelli
(b) an arrest as a prostitute
(c) her own insanity
(d) his personal protection from Giovanelli

4. 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

5. How does Daisy see her flirtations as being?
(a) what is necessary to attract a man
(b) evidence that nothing improper is going on
(c) a serious habit she cannot break
(d) the way a woman gets power over a man

Short Answer Questions

1. At the funeral, what does Giovanelli proclaim about Daisy?

2. What does Winterbourne warn Daisy that she is becoming?

3. What has Daisy already noticed Mr. Giovanelli doing?

4. How does Mrs. Walker react to Daisy's announcement?

5. More so in Rome, what is the central theme of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does James show that Daisy is not romantically interested in Giovanelli?

2. What confirmation about Daisy's innocence does Winterbourne finally receive?

3. How does Winterbourne lecture Daisy at the Palace of the Caesars?

4. How does Daisy astonish Mrs. Walker that afternoon in her house?

5. What happens in the winter of the same year Winterbourne met Daisy?

6. How does Henry James satirize Americans in the scene at Mrs. Walker's afternoon gathering?

7. What is Winterbourne's ulterior motive in going with Daisy to meet Giovanelli?

8. What does Daisy say she is about to do that scandalizes the Americans at Mrs. Walker's house?

9. How do the American women try to prevent Daisy from going to meet Giovanelli?

10. What shows the determination of Mrs. Walker to save the reckless American girl?

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