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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. How does Bertie describe Honoria Glossop?

2. What does Lord Worplesdon like to dine in?

3. What kind of establishment is Buck's?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wins the Sermon Handicap?

2. What happens at Goodwood with the race that Ocean Breeze is running?

3. What does the situation with Oswald remind Bertie of?

4. Why does Aunt Agatha call Jeeves Bertie's keeper?

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

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

7. Who in the family may have inherited Uncle Henry's eccentricities?

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

9. When Jeeves is going on a vacation, he finds a temporary replacement. What does he tell the replacement about Bertie?

10. Whom is Bingo Little in love with in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the style of writing that Wodehouse chooses for this book? Relate this to his famous quote: "I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn."

Essay Topic 2

A protagonist is one who undergoes some change. Jeeves is a fully formed and never-changing character, so it follows that Bertie must be the protagonist in the book.

What changes does Bertie undergo? What is Bertie's story line? What challenges does he face? How does Bertie overcome the challenges? Is he a true protagonist? Does he have any real shift of perception, or is he simply a one-dimensional comic figure?

Essay Topic 3

What is the use of names in this collection of stories? Go through the names that Wodehouse chooses for his characters. What do they reveal about the characters? Why are they funny? How does the author use nicknames? How is class identity shown through the names characters are given?

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