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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 has Aunt Agatha convinced Sir Roderick of?

2. What size hat must Glossop wear?

3. What actually happens when Bertie throws Oswald into the water?

4. In Chapter 2, whom does Bertie describe as a plague spot?

5. Where are Claude and Eustace being educated?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Meadowes?

7. Why did Prudence Baxter end up winning the egg and spoon race?

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

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

10. Why does Tuppy Glossop not hear Bertie singing "Sonny Boy"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the place of women in Bertie's world? What type of women (stock characters) appear in these stories? What is Bertie's relationship to them? Why does Jeeves keep rescuing Bertie from marrying?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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