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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 Bertie recommend doing to the child on the bridge?

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

3. Why are Claude amd Euastace arrested?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 4, when does the blow fall?

5. In Chapter 1, what is the title of the book Florence has given Bertie to read?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the Heralds of the Red Dawn doing in the park?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the style of writing that Wodehouse chooses for this book? Relate this to his famous quote: "I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn."

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

Hyperbole is exaggeration in writing and is used in both comedy and drama. Show how Wodehouse uses hyperbole to heighten the comedy of these stories. Pick four concrete examples, explain why they are hyperbole, and analyze them in terms of what they do in the story.

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