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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 delays Glossop at his club before his lunch with Bertie?

2. In Chapter 2, whom is the girl Aunt Agatha wants Bertie to marry?

3. What is Bingo's charge fishing for on the bridge?

4. What does Aunt Agatha call Jeeves?

5. Why does Honoria suddenly switch from calling him Mr. Wooster to calling him Bertie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Sermon Handicap favorite?

2. Where had Bertie and Jeeves met the father and son team of the Blumenfelds previously?

3. What does the pastor, Old Heppenstall, do to Harold after the choir boy makes such a ruckus during the service?

4. In Chapter 4, what odd event happens to Sir Roderick on his way to the club?

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

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

7. Why are there three cats in Bertie's bedroom during the lunch with Sir Roderick?

8. What does Aunt Agatha send Bertie off to East Dulwich to do after hearing that her brother wants to marry a waitress?

9. Why did Prudence Baxter end up winning the egg and spoon race?

10. Upon popping into the oyster bar at Buck's, who does Bertie run into?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hyperbole is exaggeration in writing and is used in both comedy and drama. Show how Wodehouse uses hyperbole to heighten the comedy of these stories. Pick four concrete examples, explain why they are hyperbole, and analyze them in terms of what they do in the story.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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