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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. Who goes to see Sippy's relatives in Sippy's place?

2. Where do Biff, Bertie, and Jeeves meet?

3. Who does Bertie warn Biff about?

4. Where did Biff think the girl he proposed to disappeared to?

5. What does Rocky say he does until five o'clock most days?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aunt Isabel think of Bertie when she arrives at his flat?

2. Who is Heloise Pringle?

3. How does Sippy's aunt react to the news of Sippy's incarceration?

4. What does Aunt Isabel decide to do after receiving some letters from Rocky?

5. What scheme does Bertie come up with to help Freddie win Elizabeth back?

6. Who do we discover that Mabel is related to at the end of the story?

7. How does Biff lose contact with Mabel?

8. What is Bertie's friend, Rocky, like?

9. What happens when Freddie takes the small boy to Elizabeth?

10. What does Bertie realize about Sippy's distant relatives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of deception. Who deceives who, and why? What tone are these deceptions written in?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the tone of the stories in the collection. Are they written in a lighthearted and comedic tone? Are they written in a suspenseful and dark tone? Why might Wodehouse have written the stories in this tone?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss love and romance in Wodehouse's short stories. Is romance and love often a focus of his stories? What are some examples of stories which center around the romance of the protagonist and his love interest?

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