SparkNotes: Daisy Miller: Quiz

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1. Through whose eyes do we see most of the events in Daisy Miller?

(A) Daisy’s

(B) The narrator’s

(D) Mrs. Costello’s

2. How might the hotel Trois Couronnes, where the Millers and Mrs. Costello are staying, be described?

(A) Old and venerable

(B) New and fashionable

(D) A Day’s Inn

3. Mrs. Costello is what relation of Winterbourne’s?

(A) Mother

(B) Mistress

(D) Aunt

4. Why do Winterbourne’s friends like to say that he’s in Geneva “studying”?

(A) He’s doing an advanced degree there

(B) It wouldn’t be discreet to say he has a mistress there

(D) B and C

5. When Randolph first meets Winterbourne, what does he ask him for?

(A) Candy

(B) Sugar

(D) A hug

6. Where does Winterbourne promise to take Daisy in Chapter 1?

(A) Schenectady

(B) Lourdes

(D) Chillon Castle

7. When Mrs. Costello describes the Millers as “common,” she means that they are what?

(A) Like a lot of other Americans she’s met

(B) Socially unacceptable

(D) B and C

8. When Winterbourne first meets Daisy, it occurs to him that she may be what?

(A) Less innocent than she seems

(B) A ghost

(D) A handful

9. What excuse does Winterbourne give for being unable to introduce Daisy to his aunt?

(A) She is out of town

(B) She hardly socializes at all

(D) B and C

10. During their trip to Chillon, why does Daisy get angry at Winterbourne?

(A) He makes fun of her ignorance

(B) He tips the guard to leave them alone

(D) He recites a long poem by Lord Byron

11. Mrs. Costello’s request that Winterbourne bring her the novel Paule Méré is what?

(A) Sort of sweet

(B) Highly ironic

(D) Extremely annoying

12. What do Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Miller warn Daisy about when she proposes to walk in the Pincio?

(A) The Roman fever

(B) Fortune hunters

(D) A and C

13. What seems to be Mrs. Miller’s favorite topic of conversation?

(A) Art

(B) Politics and the Papal State

(D) Her digestion

14. How does Daisy react when Winterbourne suggests that she and Giovanelli might be in love?

(A) She seems to be angry and offended

(B) She makes the “loser” sign

(D) She seems to think it’s a pretty good joke

15. Which character, after Daisy, seems least concerned with social convention?

(A) Giovanelli

(B) Mrs. Walker

(D) Eugenio

16. Which character does not suffer from any physical ailment or malady in the novel?

(A) Randolph

(B) Daisy

(D) Mrs. Costello

17. At Daisy’s funeral, what does Giovanelli tell Winterbourne about Daisy?

(A) That she was stuck up

(B) That she was innocent

(D) That she was wealthy

18. On her deathbed, what does Daisy want Winterbourne to know?

(A) She always thought he was too formal

(B) She was never engaged to Giovanelli

(D) B and C

19. Many of James’s contemporary readers condemned Daisy Miller because his representative of American girlhood seemed how?

(A) Vulgar

(B) Ignorant

(D) A, B, and C

20. When Mrs. Costello pretends to think that Daisy’s last name is “Baker” or “Chandler,” what is she doing?

(A) Mocking Daisy’s family for being nouveau riche

(B) Mocking Daisy’s family for having made their money in “trade”

(D) A and B