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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 had Honoria been doing to Bertie between Chapters 3 and 4?

2. How does Bertie describe Jeeves upon meeting him at the door for the first time?

3. What is Ditteredge?

4. What does the Duke of Ramfurline believe he is?

5. Where has Bertie been invited for Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bertie deduce that Uncle George is planning to marry?

2. How does Comrade Butt find out the real identity of Bingo Little?

3. In Chapter 6, why is Jeeves upset that Bertie wants to go to Skeldings for Christmas?

4. What are the Heralds of the Red Dawn doing in the park?

5. In contrast to Bertie's opinion of Honoria Glossop, what does Bingo Little think of her?

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

7. Why does Florence Craye give Bertie serious books to read?

8. What does Aunt Agatha announce at her lunch with Bertie in Chapter 2?

9. What effect does Sir Roderick Glossop have upon Bertie?

10. Why does Tuppy Glossop not hear Bertie singing "Sonny Boy"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Contrast the written dialogue of Bertie and Jeeves. What are the characteristics of Bertie's speech? Find three of the best examples of things only Bertie could/would say. What are the characteristics of Jeeves' dialogue? Find three examples of specifically Jeeves-like dialogue. Contrast and compare the two men verbally.

Essay Topic 2

Wodehouse loves to use literary allusions. Find several in the book and analyze them. Discuss the choice to have Bertie, a relatively negligible person with very little literary knowledge, narrate the book.

Essay Topic 3

Inherent in P.G. Wodehouse's work is the class system that existed in England (and still exists to some extent). The humor of Bertie and Jeeves is partly based on the absurdity of class. Bertie is clearly the lesser man, yet, in the English system, he has power over a man like Jeeves.

Describe the class system by using examples from the book. Where does the humor lie in the relationship between employer and servant? Why does it make us laugh when Jeeves is clearly the greater mind and man?

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