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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chips deal with tense situations at the school?
(a) By referring them to Chatteris to handle.
(b) By doling out punishments.
(c) By ignoring them.
(d) By poking fun at them.

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

3. What began to spring up quite near to Brookfield in 1915?
(a) Refugee camps.
(b) Low-cost housing.
(c) Military camps.
(d) Airfields.

4. How did Chips feel about what he was asked to do after Chatteris' death?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Devastated.
(d) Guilty.

5. Which of the following was the topic of the class that Chips taught in Chapter 14?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Greek architecture.
(c) The Roman arrival in England.
(d) Greek philosophy.

6. In what area does Ralston feel that Chips has a problem teaching?
(a) Latin pronunciation.
(b) Roman England.
(c) Greek pronunciation.
(d) Greek mythology.

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

8. Which group of people does Chips make reference to in Chapter 9?
(a) The Bengalis.
(b) The Boers.
(c) The Zulus.
(d) The Gauls.

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

10. What do we find out eventually happened to the boy who Chips noticed as being upset in Chapter 10?
(a) That he became a doctor.
(b) That he graduated from Cambridge University.
(c) That he pursued a career in politics.
(d) That he died.

11. During what month of the year was the first former Brookfield student killed in the war?
(a) September.
(b) December.
(c) July.
(d) March.

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

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

14. Someone in Chapter 9 states that Chips 'gets away with' which of the following?
(a) Doing less work than other teachers.
(b) Saying anything.
(c) Leaving school early.
(d) Being cruel to the students.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose death does Chips recall the new headmaster announcing in Chapter 10?

2. How is Ralston described in Chapter 11?

3. What does Chip mention as never forgetting In Chapter 12?

4. Why did Chips love the summer months?

5. How did Chips feel when he looked at what was happening around the world in the post-War decade?

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