Question

This book’s author adapted it into a stage play that inserts the character of Madame de Katkoff and adds a happy ending in which the two leads marry. This work’s title character tells the protagonist, “I prefer weak tea!” over his advice after they discuss flirting. A girl in this work refuses to get into a carriage with her love interest and his aunt because she sees them as “stiff.” Mrs. Costello sniffs at the idea that this novella’s protagonist rowed over to the Castle of Chillon alone with a girl he first meets (10[1])in Vevey, Switzerland. This novella’s title character, a native of Schenectady, New York, (10[1])is caught by the protagonist on a date with Giovanelli in the Colosseum. (10[1])For 10 points, Winterbourne romances the title (10[1])American girl before she dies of (10[1])Roman fever in what novella by Henry James? ■END■ (10[1]0[5])

ANSWER: Daisy Miller
<Berkeley A, American Literature>
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