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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Chips describe the Edwardian decade which followed Queen Victoria's death?
(a) As prosperous.
(b) As painful.
(c) As uneventful.
(d) As frenzied.

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

4. In what year did Chips retire?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1926.

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

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

7. After Meldrum's death, what did Chips hope would happen?
(a) That Chips could retire.
(b) That Chips would be made head of the language department.
(c) That Chips would be made headmaster.
(d) That a new passionate headmaster would be hired.

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

9. What did Chips joke that he thought that a "Wurlitzer" was?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A dog breed.
(c) A candy.
(d) A sausage.

10. What illness forced Chips to leave the school for a while?
(a) Shingles.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Measles.
(d) Bronchitis.

11. Who was named as Ralston's replacement?
(a) Chappell.
(b) Chatteris.
(c) Chambers.
(d) Childers.

12. By what date did Chips hope that World War I would be over?
(a) Armistice Day.
(b) Easter.
(c) Christmas.
(d) St. Patrick's Day.

13. How is Ralston described in Chapter 11?
(a) As a hot head.
(b) As a live wire.
(c) As a punching bag.
(d) As a loose cannon.

14. What did Chips struggle with while reading the list of War dead?
(a) Speaking loudly and clearly.
(b) Seeing the list without his glasses.
(c) Holding back tears.
(d) Pronouncing names.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of man was Ralson's replacement?

3. What did Chips wonder about in Chapter 16?

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

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

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