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

2. What was Chips asked to do following Chatteris' death?
(a) Retire again.
(b) Find Chatteris' replacement.
(c) Prepare for the school closure.
(d) Act as headmaster at Brookfield.

3. In Chapter 9, Chips states that men in which occupation live a long life?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Farmers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Lawyers.

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

5. In Chapter 14, how many people were killed in the air raid near Brookfield?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Nine.
(c) Ten.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Chatteris fall?

2. What fraying threadbare article of clothing did Chips wear in Chapter 9?

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

4. What illness forced Chips to leave the school for a while?

5. Who became the school's new headmaster?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Chips say to his students in his farewell speech?

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

3. Why did Chatteris say that Brookfield needed Chips to return?

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

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

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

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

8. When did Chips take his second retirement?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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