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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's profession?

2. What type of swimming stroke does Oswald excel at?

3. How are Claude and Eustace related?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Aunt Agatha believe that the right wife would do for Bertie?

5. What does "S to the core" mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What effect does Sir Roderick Glossop have upon Bertie?

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

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

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

6. What does Aunt Agatha say is the slight snag in the marital plans of Honoria and Bertie?

7. What does the pastor, Old Heppenstall, do to Harold after the choir boy makes such a ruckus during the service?

8. Who is, surprisingly, part of the revolutionary group Heralds of the Red Dawn?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A protagonist is one who undergoes some change. Jeeves is a fully formed and never-changing character, so it follows that Bertie must be the protagonist in the book.

What changes does Bertie undergo? What is Bertie's story line? What challenges does he face? How does Bertie overcome the challenges? Is he a true protagonist? Does he have any real shift of perception, or is he simply a one-dimensional comic figure?

Essay Topic 2

The life of the idle rich is often of interest to us. Bertie floats from place to place with no real purpose but to eat, drink, and be merry. What is it about this life of Bertie's that draws the reader in?

What is Bertie's daily life like as described in this book? What is his purpose in life? Why are readers drawn in by this kind of life and character?

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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