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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What it is that Tuppy Glossop has come to tell Bertie?

2. What is Mrs. Penworthy good at?

3. How many Oxford students are marooned with Eustace & Claude?

4. Who was the disguised speaker?

5. What does old Rowbotham want to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Wodehouse loves to use literary allusions. Find several in the book and analyze them. Discuss the choice to have Bertie, a relatively negligible person with very little literary knowledge, narrate the book.

Essay Topic 2

Wodehouse parodies the upper class mercilessly. In fact, during his lifetime, this parody was not appreciated by Britian's ruling class. What in these stories would offend an upper-class person? How would they feel about Jeeves being much more intelligent and powerful than his foppish master, Bertie? Would the upper-class reader be threatened by Jeeves?

Essay Topic 3

What are the types of men who are in these stories? What stock characters surround Bertie and Jeeves? Do you see categories? Or are the men more individualistic than the female characters are? Discuss several of the male characters, and analyze them in terms of their effect upon Bertie.

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