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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Brookfield boys do during the 1926 General Strike?
(a) They stayed confined to their dormitories.
(b) The collected clothing for the poor.
(c) They loaded vans with food.
(d) They walked the picket line in support.

2. What did Chips say about the man who delivered a speech in his honor upon his retirement?
(a) That he came from a family that exaggerated.
(b) That he was famous for emotional speeches.
(c) That he underestimated what Brookfield meant to Chips.
(d) That he was very kind.

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

4. Who once visited Brookfield in honor of Speech Day?
(a) David Lloyd George.
(b) Stanley Baldwin.
(c) Neville Chamberlain.
(d) Sir Robert Peel.

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

6. How many Brookfield students died in the Battle of the Somme?
(a) 13.
(b) 18.
(c) 23.
(d) 34.

7. Who was Sir John Rivers?
(a) The Chairman of the Governors.
(b) The village mayor.
(c) The father of a Brookfield student.
(d) The owner of the property adjacent to Brookfield.

8. How did Ralston feel about Chips?
(a) He respected him.
(b) He disliked him.
(c) He distrusted him.
(d) He admired him.

9. Why did Chips love the summer months?
(a) Because he could garden.
(b) Because there were many events at Brookfield.
(c) Because his former students would visit him.
(d) Because the days were longer.

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

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. What did Chips discover in himself after having had Katherine in his life?
(a) Confidence in his writing.
(b) A love for athletics.
(c) Pride in his work.
(d) An impatience for stupidity.

13. What did Chips note had changed among students and masters at Brookfield?
(a) That there was a lack of respect among them.
(b) That there was more distance among them.
(c) That there were more misunderstandings among them.
(d) That there was more friendliness among them.

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

15. Who was the smallest new boy Brookfield had ever had?
(a) Fairbank.
(b) Fletcher.
(c) Finnegan.
(d) Forrester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ralston leave Brookfield?

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

3. What fraying threadbare article of clothing did Chips wear in Chapter 9?

4. What was the surname of the student whom Chips joked about, which subsequently landed him in trouble?

5. What do we find out eventually happened to the boy who Chips noticed as being upset in Chapter 10?

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