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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was characteristic of the farewell speech that Chips gave on his retirement?
(a) It referenced his wife.
(b) It included many jokes.
(c) It was presented entirely in Latin.
(d) He cried through it.

2. How does Chips describe the Edwardian decade which followed Queen Victoria's death?
(a) As uneventful.
(b) As frenzied.
(c) As painful.
(d) As prosperous.

3. What was the surname of the student whom Chips joked about, which subsequently landed him in trouble?
(a) Inman.
(b) Irwin.
(c) Isaacstein.
(d) Ibarra.

4. What did Chips joke that he thought that a "Wurlitzer" was?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A candy.
(c) A sausage.
(d) A dog breed.

5. What is the first line in Chapter 13?
(a) "Retirement was a bore".
(b) "The War Years".
(c) "Will you be wanting anything else, sir?"
(d) "Good-bye, Mr. Chips".

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Chips love the summer months?

2. Where did Chips once travel to that put him off of traveling again?

3. In Chapter 14, how many bombs had fallen in and around Brookfield?

4. What medical condition did Chatteris have?

5. What did Ralston ask Chips to do in 1908?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chips still have memorized in Chapter 9?

2. What relationship proved to be somewhat controversial for Chips in Chapter 10?

3. What troubled a student named Grayson in Chapter 10?

4. How did word of Chips' and Ralston's argument spread throughout the school? What was the reaction from the staff and students?

5. What did Chatteris ask Chips to do since many younger teachers were away fighting in the War?

6. What did everyone seem to accept about Chips following Katherine's death?

7. In Chapter 10, what event does Chips recall witnessing? What did it make him consider about England's future?

8. In Chapter 16, what does Chips feel while reflecting on the years of World War I?

9. What happened when Chatteris fell ill in the winter of 1917?

10. Who was Sir John Rivers, and what message did he take to Chips in Chapter 11?

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