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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 Aunt Agatha call Jeeves?

2. Who is Mrs. Spenser Gregson?

3. Where does Bertie's uncle Willoughby live?

4. Where does Bertie live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why are Claude and Eustace in possession of a hat, a dead fish, and three cats?

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

5. Who was the Wooster eccentric who kept eleven pet rabbits in his bedroom?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 4, what odd event happens to Sir Roderick on his way to the club?

10. Why does Florence Craye give Bertie serious books to read?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

These stories are very much planted in a particular time and place, yet they seem to continue to be popular decades after they were written. What is it about Bertie and Jeeves that has timeless appeal? Why has the humor of these stories lasted? What are the key elements that seem to be evidently timeless?

Essay Topic 2

The central relationship in this book is between Bertie and Jeeves. In Chapter 1, Jeeves is introduced for the first time. Wodehouse writes many short stories and novels about these two, and they have become a classic pair in literature (and later in the television version).

How does P.G. Wodehouse introduce Jeeves? What is the relationship that is immediately set up? What does Bertie think of Jeeves? What sort of first impression does he have? How does this set up the rest of the stories?

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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