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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Which workers went on strike in Chapter 10?
(a) Miners.
(b) Healthcare workers.
(c) Metal workers.
(d) Railway workers.

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

5. Under Ralston's leadership, what kind of students populated Brookfield the most?
(a) Students with poor grades.
(b) Students on scholarships.
(c) Working class boys.
(d) Rich men's sons.

6. What was the most gratifying thing for Chips when he returned to Brookfield?
(a) Having his old office back.
(b) Feeling needed.
(c) Receiving a paycheck again.
(d) Joking with the students again.

7. What reputation had Chips earned by Chapter 16?
(a) A task master.
(b) A stick-in-the-mud.
(c) A party animal.
(d) A jester.

8. In Chapter 10, who is the student who Chips notices as being upset?
(a) Grayson.
(b) Guillory.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Gregory.

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

10. What kind of man was Ralson's replacement?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Disorganized.
(d) Strict.

11. What illness did Chips recall two-thirds of the school once having contracted?
(a) Chicken pox.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Bronchitis.
(d) German measles.

12. Where did Chips and Sir John Rivers take a walk together?
(a) The cricket pitches.
(b) By the river.
(c) The school corridor.
(d) Throughout the village.

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

14. How did Chips feel when he looked at what was happening around the world in the post-War decade?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Disappointed.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chips say about the man who delivered a speech in his honor upon his retirement?

2. In Chapter 9, Chips states that men in which occupation live a long life?

3. How did Chips feel about what he was asked to do after Chatteris' death?

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

5. By what date did Chips hope that World War I would be over?

(see the answer keys)

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