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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chips recall Sir John Rivers having trouble with in school?
(a) Pop quizzes.
(b) Mastering his verbs.
(c) Mastering multiplication tables.
(d) Memorizing poetry.

2. What does Chips note that one of the new teachers at Brookfield allows his class to do?
(a) To invite girls to visit at the school.
(b) To call him by his first name.
(c) To miss class without punishment.
(d) To wear clothing other than their school uniforms.

3. What medical condition did Chatteris have?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) A heart murmur.
(d) Gout.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, which game was Chips congratulated for playing in a decent way?

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

3. How did Ralston claim to have doubled the school's endowment fund?

4. How is Ralston described in Chapter 11?

5. What did Chips wonder about in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Chips take his second retirement?

2. In Chapter 10, what event does Chips recall witnessing? What did it make him consider about England's future?

3. What financial arrangements does Chips make in Chapter 16?

4. What did Chips and Headmaster Ralston argue about in Chapter 11?

5. What troubles did Chatteris tell Chips about in Chapter 13?

6. How did having Katherine in his life help Chips survive after her death?

7. What did Chips do in his retirement? What was a topic of conversation at many dinners that Chips attended?

8. How did word of Chips' and Ralston's argument spread throughout the school? What was the reaction from the staff and students?

9. Who was Sir John Rivers, and what message did he take to Chips in Chapter 11?

10. What relationship proved to be somewhat controversial for Chips in Chapter 10?

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