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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 does Florence want Bertie to do with Willoughby's manuscript?

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

3. How does Bertie describe Honoria Glossop?

4. What does Bertie do after he drinks the hangover libation?

5. Where are Claude and Eustace being educated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is McIntosh?

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

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

6. Who is Jeeves?

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

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

9. What does Jeeves serve Sir Roderick for lunch, and why?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Contrast the written dialogue of Bertie and Jeeves. What are the characteristics of Bertie's speech? Find three of the best examples of things only Bertie could/would say. What are the characteristics of Jeeves' dialogue? Find three examples of specifically Jeeves-like dialogue. Contrast and compare the two men verbally.

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