Jeeves and Wooster Multiple Choice Quiz | 15 Questions

Answer: Jeeves' sleek and noiseless style of walking, unlike the sloppy walking style of his previous valet Meadowes

In the first episode, Jeeves portrayed himself as a very efficient valet,and Wooster hired him instantly. At this time, Wooster knew little of Jeeves's problem solving abilities.
Yet Jeeves saved Wooster from peril relating to a nasty task he was assigned to do for Florence Craye, the girl Bertie was engaged to. It involved stealing and destroying a manuscript written by Bertie's uncle Willoughby titled "Recollections of a Long Life". The manuscript contained adventures of uncle Willoughby and his friends (one of whom was Florence Craye's father) in their youth. Since these characters acted in their youthful spirit committing those silly playful offenses young men generally commit in P.G Wodehouse novels, Florence Craye wanted the manuscript destroyed and commanded Wooster to do so.

You can read this episode, the very first one in the "Jeeves and Wooster" series, in 'Carry on Jeeves', chapter titled 'Jeeves Takes Charge'.

Answer: Bertie with his schemes succeeded in worsening the situation instead of solving it, just like 'Attila', a chap in a story famous for spreading ruin and desolation in peaceful homes.

This is taken from "Right Ho Jeeves". Wooster in this episode made schemes which succeeded in making things worst for Aunt Dahlia rather then solving problems. His rift with Jeeves relating to the latter's disapproval of Bertie's white jacket with brass buttons led Bertie to become firm and proud with Jeeves, thus losing Jeeves advisory services. Wooster's schemes aimed at reuniting Tuppy Glossup with Angela and Gussie with Madeline Bassett.
However with a complicated sequence of events, what happened was Gussie Fink-Nottle got engaged to Angela, Anatole the temperamental French cook choose to leave his employment and Bertie got engaged to Madeline Bassett.

Well, finally Jeeves solved these problems and also burned Bertie's white jacket laying an iron on it for a long while. However, Bertie could only say, "Right ho, Jeeves!", knowing that it was useless battling with Jeeves.

Answer: Sinbad the Sailor

Well, Wooster had purchased a Sinbad the Sailor costume for attending the fancy dress ball near Steeple Bumpleigh, his Aunt Agatha's residence. Besides the costume having Jeeves' approval, it had the ginger whiskers which Bertie liked. Bertie, however, never got to wear this costume in 'Joy in the Morning' and was forced to wear a police uniform Jeeves pinched from Stilton Cheesewright for the fancy dress ball.
This obviously meant trouble for Wooster, and Stilton almost arrested Wooster for pinching a policeman's uniform but Jeeves as usual found the way through.

Wooster's least liked costume after Stilton's police uniform would be Pierrot.

Answer: True

Pongo does not feature in the "Jeeves and Wooster" series, however in 'Right Ho Jeeves', Wooster attends Pongo's birthday party.

Pongo and Bertie are Drones club members and Bertie therefore also knows Freddie Widgeon, the latter also being a Drones Club member.
A lot can be said about Pongo and Freddie for they too are Wodehouse characters who are subjects in his stories and bring about flavor and humour.
These characters, as can be guessed, are fun loving young men who can be the heart and soul of a party, Pongo being a cross-talk acting comedian with his pal Barmy. It can only be said that Bertie would have had a blast of a time in Pogo's party,not only because of lots of cocktails and drinks.
Freddie Widgeon is always a unfortunate chap who ends up losing the girl he loves in every story he is featured in.
It is highly recommended that one reads 'Young Men in Spats' for more information about these characters.

Answer: True

This fact is absolutely true! In 'Right Ho Jeeves', Gussie follows Bertie's suggestion to take scotch to give him the nerve to propose to Madeline Bassett. However, Gussie got too intoxicated - drinking many himself, and also taking the orange juice Jeeves and Wooster tampered with by mixing it with alcohol.
As a result of this, Gussie got too much nerve, and spoke too freely in the prize distribution event of the Market Snodsbury Grammer School, where he was to give a speech and distribute prizes. He managed to insult and embarrass Tom Travels (Aunt Dhalia's husband), the head master of the school, and poor Bertram Wooster as Gussie told embarrassing details about them.

It did provide amusement to Bertie's fun loving Aunt Dahlia and thoroughly
entertained the audience present in the prize distributing ceremony.

Answer: True

Jeeves was pleased with the paragraph Wooster had written about socks in the article titled, "What the Well Dressed Man is Wearing". This actually meant he approved of Wooster's taste in socks. However, Jeeves, as can be expected, did not approve of the whole article because he disapproved of Wooster's choice of soft silk shirts for evening wear.
However, Wooster still gave his article to his Aunt Dahlia who wanted it for her magazine, "Milady's Boudoir" for publication.

Bertie was unable to wear the bundle of silk shirts he ordered in the end because Jeeves sent it back to the shop. Bertie abstained as usual from getting cross with Jeeves for he knew it was useless; Jeeves in the end always managed to have his way.

Answer: Uncle Percy

Uncle Willoughby was Bertie's benefactor; after he passed away Bertie got all his uncle's money to enjoy. Tom Travels was Aunt Dahlia's husband and Uncle Percy was Aunt Agatha's husband.
Uncle Percy, though not as scary as Aunt Agatha, has a angry temperament and is capable of giving people a very good scolding.

Answer: They pinched things so that they could get into an Oxford club called "The Seekers'

Claude and Eustace were two active, robust cousins of Bertie's, the sort of chaps that do naughty things and get into trouble.
However, Bertie was saved from getting married to Honoria Glossop, because of their pinching of the items mentioned for entry into 'the Seekers Club'. Roderick Glossup was convinced that Bertie was a looney, who amused himself by pinching hats and keeping cats in his bed, as a result of which Rodrick Glossop broke the engagement of his daughter Honoria with Bertram Wooster.

Answer: True

Jeeves has a class, a high standard. Like Bertie had his Drones club, Jeeves had Junior Ganymede.
Jeeves, though intellectual, had his defects; one was objecting to many garments that Bertie choose to wear. Jeeves was successful in making Wooster abandon clothing, ranging from purple socks, to golf plus fours, spats, coats, ties, even vases. This was manipulative on the part of Jeeves and many times rifts have arisen regarding this, for Wooster always asserted himself to his fullest to save himself from letting Jeeves succeed in making him abandon what he liked to wear. Jeeves even objected to Bertie's mustache; in the end Jeeves always wins in getting rid of such things.

Some other defects include listening to conversations of people silently, on purpose putting his ear on door keyholes.

In 'Bertie Changes his Mind', Jeeves expressed that he was fond of Bertie and would not like Bertie getting married, feeling that when the wife appeared it would provide difficulties for Jeeves to act in his capacity as a valet.
Jeeves liked being a valet only for bachelors.

Jeeves is no doubt right for when Bertie was engaged to Honoria Glossop, she, along with Aunt Agatha, insisted that Wooster should not keep Jeeves as a valet. Perhaps no wife would accept any valet exercising his control on her husband to wear only certain sorts of dress as approved by the valet.
So, it might be assumed that Jeeves till the end would not let Wooster marry since he wanted to be in service under bachelor Wooster.

However, that would not stand in the way of Wooster being a happy, free bachelor.

Answer: Sippy pinched the policeman's helmet on Boat Race Night

Well, this is one night where Bertie takes an exception to being a normal chap
having nothing to do with pinching policemen's helmets and becomes a naughty chap amusing himself troubling policemen by pinching their helmets.
However, all Bertie's suggestions take turn to make things worse in the story,
and in this case his friend was put in jail for a month without the option of bail for his act in pinching the helmet and assaulting the policeman.

Answer: Jeeves had been responsible for forcing Wooster to give a speech at a girls' school; this experience was torture for Bertie.

Out of all reasons outlined here, the most provable reason is because Wooster had an experience of facing an audience packed with school girls as a speaker. Jeeves had arranged this in 'Bertie changes his Mind'. Bertie wanted to take care of girl children, and proposed to call his sister and her three little daughters to live with him.
Jeeves did not like the idea, however did not openly disapprove of it since he figured that Bertie was very firm and determined in this cause - in fact, more determined than in the matter of wearing purple socks, which Jeeves disapproved in another episode. So Jeeves planned to make Bertie give a speech to the girls which Jeeves knew would be a horrid experience for Bertie.
Bertie made, as he would put it, an ass of himself, and this episode had given him a dread of facing an audience.

In 'Right Ho Jeeves' Bertie escaped his Aunt Dahlia urging him to do the task
by sending Gussie Fink Nottle to her. Bertie was able to convince Gussie that he let Gussie in for the task, not because Bertie Wooster wanted to slide out of it, but because he wanted Gussie to impress Madeline with his speech; this was not the truth. However it was nice to see Bertram doing for a change what his other pals always seem to be doing to him, i.e, put Bertie in some nasty irritating situation for their own benefit.

Answer: By blackmailing Bertie; she would not let him come to Brinkley Court to have Anatole's cooking again.

Anatole's cooking was the reason Aunt Dahlia was able to make Bertie to do unpleasant tasks for her benefit. However, Bertie was affectionate and liked Aunt Dahlia's company. She was a jovial company for a good chat; however she had a loud hoarse voice like calling some animal situated far away.

Harrogate was a place in which the cure was given, a medicine that was a displeasure to taste and was administered to people with gastric problems. In 'Clustering Around Young Bingo' , Bertie went to Harrogate to give company to his Uncle George who was taking the cure. He enjoyed the spectacle of
watching his uncle being administered the cure. It was in this episode that Anatole came into Aunt Dahlia's employment, leaving Bingo Little's house.

Answer: Bertie had kicked Edwin which Uncle Percy longed to do.

Edwin, the boy scout, had hit his father Uncle Percy with his scout stick, mistaking his father for a burglar as he saw a shadow wandering late at night in the gardens of Steeple Bumpleigh.
This angered Uncle Percy and he was happy that somebody kicked Edwin. The boy scout doing his acts of kindness always ended up doing unkindness and causing misfortune to his fellow members.
It was Edwin who burned the Wee Nooke cottage, in an attempt to clean up the chimney in the kitchen of that cottage, using gunpowder to remove the soot from the chimney.
Edwin had enraged Boko, Florence, Uncle Percy, and Bertie with his acts of kindness. Bertie thought that kicking Edwin in front of Florence, the girl he wanted to be disengaged with, would anger Florence towards him and she would end up breaking the engagement. However, it turned out Edwin had stuck the reviews of her book 'Spindrift' upside down in her album so she wanted to kick him as well.
She was happy to have seen him been kicked. It is interesting that Boko had kicked Edwin earlier; upon seeing this Florence had broken her earlier engagement with him.

Answer: Types of Ethical Theory

She had a wonderful profile that men seemed to admire but was not the easy going sort of girls a man like Bertie or most of his friends would like to be with. Stilton Cheesewright, a serious strong and determined friend of Bertie loved her and seemed to like her influence and read all her recommended difficult books without a complaint.

In 'Joy in the Morning', Bertie says that among the women he got engaged to - Honoria Glossop, Madeline Bassett and Florence Craye - the latter he would rate as the most frightful match because she made serious attempts to mould Wooster.

Answer: Jeeves wanted to go to Steeple Bumpleigh for fishing, however Bertie refused to stay there.

Bertie wanted to buy 'Spinoza' as a gift for Jeeves, since he refused to go to Steeple Bumpleigh to stay, and Jeeves wanted to go there for fishing. Bertie could not buy 'Spinoza' for Jeeves and instead unintentionally brought 'Spindrift', bumping into Florence Craye. She thought Bertie was reading her book when he was just glancing over it and she autographed the book for him. Poor Bertie had to waste his money buying the book after this.

Jeeves however managed to get Bertie and himself to Steeple Bumpleigh, much to Bertie's dislike. Jeeves had schemed for Uncle Percy to meet American businessmen Chichester Clam for discussions relating to their company merger in secret in a cottage in Steeple Bumpleigh called 'Wee Nooke' which would be under Bertie's name. The idea was that the press would not be able to get hold of the merger news, which would prevent stock prices going up needlessly.

However, the scheme failed, as Edwin the boy scout ended up burning Wee Nookee to ashes.