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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. What does Bertie feel like when submerged in the pond?

2. Why are Claude amd Euastace arrested?

3. What was Bertie's major challenge in the set-up of Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Aunt Agatha believe that the right wife would do for Bertie?

5. How does a gentleman like Bertie keep his shirts closed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bertie do to assure that the young Master Blumenfeld is happy about Bobbie Wickham's mother's play?

2. As his present fiance, Honoria makes a request that shocks Bertie to the core. What is it?

3. Who does Uncle George want to marry?

4. Why does Bertie want to go to Skeldings for Christmas?

5. Who is Bingo Little's rival when it comes to Charlotte Rowbotham?

6. Who is, surprisingly, part of the revolutionary group Heralds of the Red Dawn?

7. Who is the favorite in the Vicars' Sermon Handicap?

8. What is it about Bertie that inspires brainy girls like Honoria and Florence to try to turn him into a better, smarter man?

9. Why does Tuppy do to Bertie at the Drones Club?

10. What is Bertie's plan for Bingo regarding Oswald?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The life of the idle rich is often of interest to us. Bertie floats from place to place with no real purpose but to eat, drink, and be merry. What is it about this life of Bertie's that draws the reader in?

What is Bertie's daily life like as described in this book? What is his purpose in life? Why are readers drawn in by this kind of life and character?

Essay Topic 2

Wodehouse parodies the upper class mercilessly. In fact, during his lifetime, this parody was not appreciated by Britian's ruling class. What in these stories would offend an upper-class person? How would they feel about Jeeves being much more intelligent and powerful than his foppish master, Bertie? Would the upper-class reader be threatened by Jeeves?

Essay Topic 3

The style of writing that Wodehouse employs for this novel is very casual. Much of it is written in a conversational style.

Find some examples that are "Wodehousean" in style: casual sentence structure; use of capital letters to replace words; silly words and nicknames; other unique characteristics of Wodehouse.

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