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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 is Sir Roderick president of?

2. How does Bertie describe Jeeves' manner of walking?

3. What does Jeeves like about Monte Carlo?

4. When Bertie arrives in Ditteredge, where is Honoria?

5. What is supposed to happen when Bertie throws Oswald in the water?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Bingo not in the bushes to rescue Oswald?

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

5. Who does Uncle George want to marry?

6. Why is Bertie unable to say no to these brainy, pushy young women?

7. Who is Meadowes?

8. Whom is Bingo Little in love with in Chapter 2?

9. How does Bertie steal the dog McIntosh back from the Blumenfelds?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This collection of short stories is presented as a book.

What are the themes that tie the short stories together and make it a cohesive collection of tales? What characters carry through many of the episodes? What is the overarching story told by the smaller episodes?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The central relationship in this book is between Bertie and Jeeves. In Chapter 1, Jeeves is introduced for the first time. Wodehouse writes many short stories and novels about these two, and they have become a classic pair in literature (and later in the television version).

How does P.G. Wodehouse introduce Jeeves? What is the relationship that is immediately set up? What does Bertie think of Jeeves? What sort of first impression does he have? How does this set up the rest of the stories?

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