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

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

3. Who became the school's new headmaster?
(a) Randall.
(b) Robberson.
(c) Ralston.
(d) Rankin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what liquid did Chatteris lament about someone having poured down another man's neck?

2. Where did Chips once travel to that put him off of traveling again?

3. What did Chips remember about his student, Gregson?

4. What did Chips joke that he thought that a "Wurlitzer" was?

5. In what year did Chips retire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did everyone seem to accept about Chips following Katherine's death?

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

3. What troubled a student named Grayson in Chapter 10?

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

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

6. When did Chips take his second retirement?

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 16, how do the new boys at Brookfield react to Mr. Chips? What does that say about him?

(see the answer keys)

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