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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. Whom does Honoria bring back with her upon her arrival home in Chapter 3?

2. Where has Bertie been invited for Christmas?

3. Where does Bertie's uncle Willoughby live?

4. Who is Honoria Glossop?

5. How does Jeeves describe Bertie to the temporary valet replacement?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens to the Sermon Handicap favorite?

4. What is the song that is woven through Chapter 7 as a motif and focus?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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