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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 the big trick when planning a singularly fruity binge or war maneuver?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 4, when does the blow fall?

3. What is the breakfast that fortifies Bertie in Chapter 6?

4. Whom is Bertie engaged to in Chapter 1?

5. What does Honoria think she can do with Bertie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jeeves?

2. What actually happens when Bertie's great romantic scenario with Bingo and Honoria takes place?

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

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

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

6. What is the malady from which the Duke of Ramfurline is suffering?

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

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

9. How does Jeeves come to apply for the valet position?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Farce must have a fast and intricate plot. Chose one of the stories in the book, and plot the twists and turns of the story. Show how Wodehouse constructed the plot to move faster and faster. Show how the obstacles are thrown in and what surprising turns the plot takes.

Essay Topic 2

What are the types of men who are in these stories? What stock characters surround Bertie and Jeeves? Do you see categories? Or are the men more individualistic than the female characters are? Discuss several of the male characters, and analyze them in terms of their effect upon Bertie.

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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