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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 Spenser?

2. What is the name of Uncle Willoughby's book?

3. What is Sir Roderick's profession?

4. How does a gentleman like Bertie keep his shirts closed?

5. In Chapter 3, what is the second way Bertie describes Honoria's laugh?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who wins the Sermon Handicap?

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

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

4. What does Aunt Agatha send Bertie off to East Dulwich to do after hearing that her brother wants to marry a waitress?

5. What does the title of the chapter "The Purity of the Turf" refer to?

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

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

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

9. Once Bertie and Bingo no longer have an advantage in the Choir Boys' Handicap, what do they turn to for profit?

10. Upon popping into the oyster bar at Buck's, who does Bertie run into?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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