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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Daisy say she has always had?

3. What secretly pleases Winterbourne?

4. What circumstance about Winterbourne does Mrs. Costello think makes him naive about girls like Daisy?

5. What does not seem to concern Winterbourne?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis on which the questions of Daisy's innocence is judged?

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

3. Explain Winterbourne's attraction to Daisy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay entitled Why I Would Like to Visit Italy. Using some of the sites Daisy visits in Rome, give your reasons for wanting to visit there. Your essay should also mention Italian fashion and how it has influenced fashion in the USA.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the generation gap. In Daisy's day, Mrs. Miller is a perfect example of an older woman completely befuddled by the behavior of her children. Discuss the generation gap as something that has always existed and why you think that is.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay comparing Daisy to the Cindy Lauper song, Girls Just Want to Have Fun. In your essay show how Henry James' Daisy Miller foreshadows a much less restrictive future for young American women.

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