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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. How is Daisy dressed as she comes down the stairs?

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

3. What does Daisy accuse her mother of doing?

4. Why do they meet where he is waiting?

5. What happens when Daisy goes out alone with gentlemen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is another clue Winterbourne seems to miss that Daisy is interested in him?

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

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

4. Relate an example of Daisy's stopping before going too far.

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

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

7. What shows the ineptitude of Mrs. Miller as a mother?

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

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

10. Explain Winterbourne's first impression of Daisy.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the value of preserving antiquities. List in your essay the reasons preserving architecture and artifacts have an important role to play in human understanding of our history.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about Henry James as a storyteller. State your opinion about his ability to hold the interest of the reader. Include the literary devices he uses and how well you think he manages to do that.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about style versus fads. Use Daisy Miller as an example of a young woman who has excellent fashion tastes for her day. Give your opinion about good fashion today as opposed to fad dressing and poor taste.

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