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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What troubles Chips during the winter months in Chapter 16?
(a) His throat.
(b) His breathing.
(c) His feet.
(d) His arthritis.

2. When did Chatteris fall?
(a) Spring, 1917.
(b) Autumn, 1920.
(c) Winter, 1917.
(d) Summer, 1920.

3. How did Meldrum die?
(a) In an accident.
(b) Of pneumonia.
(c) Of a heart attack.
(d) Of old age.

4. What kind of style did the new headmaster have?
(a) A relaxed one.
(b) A rigid one.
(c) An old-fashioned one.
(d) A modern one.

5. What does Chip mention as never forgetting In Chapter 12?
(a) The beautiful oak tree that stood outside his classroom window.
(b) The faces of his students.
(c) To always have a tea service ready for guests.
(d) The mistakes that he has made.

6. What did Chips wonder about in Chapter 16?
(a) He wondered whether England would go to war again.
(b) He wondered whether he could attend the school's year-end party.
(c) He wondered about what had happened to his former students.
(d) He wondered who was now teaching in his old classroom.

7. What did Chips consider the comment, "He still has 'em" to mean?
(a) That he was still able to hold an audience's attention.
(b) That he could still get away with anything.
(c) That he still had dignity and generosity.
(d) That he still had sense and vitality.

8. Who did Chips controversially include in the list of War dead one Sunday?
(a) The school's former German Master.
(b) The name of a German exchange student.
(c) One of the soccer players from East London.
(d) One boy who had not actually died.

9. How did Chips cause controversy in Chapter 10?
(a) By insulting a boy from a wealthy family.
(b) By disappearing for a week.
(c) By going on strike himself.
(d) Through his friendship with the striking workers.

10. In Chapter 13, what liquid did Chatteris lament about someone having poured down another man's neck?
(a) Vinegar.
(b) Ink.
(c) Beer.
(d) Water.

11. What did Chips become in the eyes of the students following Katherine's death?
(a) A father figure.
(b) Old.
(c) Pitiful.
(d) Scary.

12. In Chapter 14, how many people were killed in the air raid near Brookfield?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Nine.

13. How does Chips think that Ralston was trying to run Brookfield?
(a) Like a nursery school.
(b) Like an asylum.
(c) Like a prison.
(d) Like a factory.

14. How does Ralston describe Chips' appearance in Chapter 11?
(a) Casual.
(b) Old-fashioned.
(c) Slovenly.
(d) Dapper.

15. In Chapter 10, why is the student who Chips asked to stay behind upset?
(a) Because he thinks that he has failed his university exams.
(b) Because his mother is ill.
(c) Because his father is aboard the Titanic.
(d) because he is being bullied.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, who is the student who Chips notices as being upset?

2. In Chapter 14, who volunteered to read a passage during class?

3. How does Chips describe the Edwardian decade which followed Queen Victoria's death?

4. During what month of the year was the first former Brookfield student killed in the war?

5. In Chapter 13, why did Chatteris say that the school was suffering?

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