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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. What is it that shocks Mrs. Walker about Daisy Miller's behavior?
(a) She goes out alone.
(b) She smokes cigarettes.
(c) She walks with men in the street.
(d) She drinks.

2. How does James describe Pemberton's salary?
(a) Excessive.
(b) Generous.
(c) Niggardly.
(d) Thrifty.

3. What are the main character's feelings about the episode of the Monarchs' visit?
(a) He wishes they had never come.
(b) He doesn't regret it.
(c) He resents them for corrupting his art.
(d) He is profoundly sorry he cannot help them.

4. What does the publisher agree to do for Julianne Bordereau?
(a) Hire someone to tend the garden.
(b) Tend to the garden himself.
(c) Build a terrace in the garden.
(d) Bring flowers to Miss Tita.

5. How does James characterize the Monarchs?
(a) Angry.
(b) Well-born.
(c) Slovenly.
(d) Lackadaisical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Moreen hold in her hands while she makes her offer to Pemberton?

2. What position do the Monarchs always occupy in the illustrations the main character makes?

3. What is the reason for the Monarchs' insistence?

4. What is Brooksmith's reaction to Mr. Offord's death?

5. What does the narrator send to Brooksmith?

Short Essay Questions

1. How effective is the unnamed publisher at getting the Aspern papers?

2. What is the irony in the title ''The Real Thing'?

3. What is the first surprise we find out about Major and Mrs. Monarch?

4. What feelings does the ending of 'The Aspern Papers' create in the reader?

5. What is the publisher trying to obtain in 'The Aspern Papers'?

6. What is James saying about aristocracy in 'The Real Thing'?

7. What was 'Brooksmith' based on?

8. What effect do the Monarchs have on the illustrator's art?

9. How does Winterbourne meet Daisy Miller?

10. Who is Pemberton? What is he hired to do?

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