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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 does Winterbourne defend Daisy?
(a) saying she is only naive
(b) saying she is not cultured but not bad
(c) saying she is the innocent victim of her beauty
(d) saying she is just trying to learn the language

2. A few days later at Mrs. Walker's party, how does Daisy show up?
(a) with to many jewels
(b) under dressed
(c) with Giovanelli
(d) over dressed

3. When does Winterbourne decide emphatically that Daisy is not a nice girl?
(a) seeing her enter her hotel at one a. m.
(b) seeing her out with two men at the same time
(c) hiding herself behind her parasol
(d) seeing her at the Colosseum with Giovanelli

4. At what point does Winterbourne begin to doubt Daisy's innocence?
(a) when Daisy is not in her hotel room
(b) when Daisy walks out Mrs. Walker's door
(c) when Daisy refuses to get in the carriage
(d) when the parasol hides them from him

5. Why does Winterbourne arrive in Rome that winter?
(a) to see the colosseum
(b) to travel on to Spain
(c) to visit his aunt
(d) to help find a school for Randolf

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion prevents Winterbourne from going directly to see Daisy in Rome?

2. How does Daisy's letter to Winterbourne reveal her real feelings about him?

3. What is the ironic double standard at the end of the novel?

4. What is the irony of Mrs. Costello?

5. What does Winterbourne finally decide about Daisy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Walker's snubbing of Daisy affect her?

2. Describe the point at which Daisy and Winterbourne come into conflict.

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

4. Describe the information Winterbourne receives about Daisy from Mrs. Walker.

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

6. How does the news about Daisy alter Winterbourne's plans after he arrives in Rome?

7. To solve the problem of Daisy's going alone, how does Winterbourne provide an answer?

8. How does Giovanelli attempt to warn off Winterbourne who is walking toward him and Daisy?

9. Describe the difference between Mrs. Costello's opinion of Daisy and Mrs. Miller's opinion.

10. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Walker's request that he stop seeing Daisy?

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