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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 did Chatteris ask Chips to do in Chapter 13?
(a) Speak to the school boys' parents.
(b) Do odd jobs at the school.
(c) Privately tutor some students.
(d) Fundraise for the school.

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

3. What was the surname of the student whom Chips joked about, which subsequently landed him in trouble?
(a) Irwin.
(b) Isaacstein.
(c) Ibarra.
(d) Inman.

4. Whose death does Chips recall the new headmaster announcing in Chapter 10?
(a) King George V's.
(b) King Edward VII's.
(c) The Duke of York's.
(d) Queen Victoria's.

5. What 'first' did Chips recall seeing while at Brookfield?
(a) A telephone.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) An automobile.
(d) An airplane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness did Chips recall two-thirds of the school once having contracted?

2. What did Chips discover in himself after having had Katherine in his life?

3. In Chapter 13, what does Chatteris hope that Chips will be able to do to help him?

4. What is the first line in Chapter 13?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Chips still have memorized in Chapter 9?

3. What did Chips do when he led a class during a bombing?

4. What did Chatteris ask Chips to do since many younger teachers were away fighting in the War?

5. In Chapter 14, what did Mr. Chips do that some people found inappropriate?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 16, what does Chips feel while reflecting on the years of World War I?

10. When did Chips arrive at the decision to retire?

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