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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 Chips recall Sir John Rivers having trouble with in school?

2. What troubles Chips during the winter months in Chapter 16?

3. How is Ralston described in Chapter 11?

4. In what area does Ralston feel that Chips has a problem teaching?

5. How did Meldrum die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Chips do when he led a class during a bombing?

2. What troubles did Chatteris tell Chips about in Chapter 13?

3. What did Chips do in his retirement? What was a topic of conversation at many dinners that Chips attended?

4. When did Chips take his second retirement?

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

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

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

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

9. Which dignitary does Chips remember visiting the school? How did Chips feel about that person?

10. In Chapter 16, what does Chips note that he enjoys doing in winter and summer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the setting of the novel. Where is the novel set? What time period is it set? How does the setting influence the actions of the characters and the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the death motif in the novel, "Good-bye, Mr. Chips". Who dies in the novel? How was Chips affected by those deaths? How do those deaths affect the tone of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

What is irony? What are some examples of irony in the novel "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"? How do those examples affect the tone of the novel?

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