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

2. Which workers went on strike in Chapter 10?
(a) Railway workers.
(b) Healthcare workers.
(c) Metal workers.
(d) Miners.

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

4. In Chapter 10, why is the student who Chips asked to stay behind upset?
(a) Because he thinks that he has failed his university exams.
(b) because he is being bullied.
(c) Because his father is aboard the Titanic.
(d) Because his mother is ill.

5. In Chapter 14, who volunteered to read a passage during class?
(a) McGill.
(b) Malican.
(c) Marshall.
(d) Maynard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chips consider giving up following Katherine's death??

2. What did Brookfield boys do during the 1926 General Strike?

3. How does Chips think that Ralston was trying to run Brookfield?

4. What did Ralston ask Chips to do in 1908?

5. In Chapter 10, what event is mentioned as having been witnessed by Chips and Katherine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Chatteris fell ill in the winter of 1917?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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