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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 is poor Uncle Henry?

2. What type of suit would Jeeves prefer Bertie wear?

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

4. What does Bertie feel like when submerged in the pond?

5. Whom is Bertie engaged to in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jeeves?

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

3. Who wins the Sermon Handicap?

4. In Chapter 6, why is Jeeves upset that Bertie wants to go to Skeldings for Christmas?

5. What is it that Jeeves does upon arrival that endears him to Bertie?

6. When Bertie runs into old Bittlesham on St. James Street, at the beginning of Chapter 10, why is the older man so shaken?

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

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

9. What is Bertie's plan for Bingo regarding Oswald?

10. What does Bittlesham's worry cause him to do in terms of his nephew, Bingo?

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

Stock characters are a strong part of this book. Describe at least five characters and assign a type to them. Discuss why these types are so effective in a story with Bertie as the protagonist.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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