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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 Chips consider giving up following Katherine's death??
(a) His inheritance.
(b) His housemastership.
(c) His job.
(d) His apartment.

2. In Chapter 10, who is the student who Chips notices as being upset?
(a) Gregory.
(b) Gordon.
(c) Grayson.
(d) Guillory.

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

4. Where did Chips once travel to that put him off of traveling again?
(a) Paris.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) The Riviera.
(d) Barcelona.

5. Who did Chips controversially include in the list of War dead one Sunday?
(a) The school's former German Master.
(b) One boy who had not actually died.
(c) The name of a German exchange student.
(d) One of the soccer players from East London.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chips remember doing in a ritualistic way in Chapter 9?

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

3. What was characteristic of the farewell speech that Chips gave on his retirement?

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

5. During what month of the year was the first former Brookfield student killed in the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which dignitary does Chips remember visiting the school? How did Chips feel about that person?

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

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

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

5. What happened after Headmaster Meldrum died?

6. Where did Ralston go after resigning from Brookfield? Who replaced him?

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

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

9. In Chapter 11, what changes was Ralston trying to incorporate into Brookfield school?

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

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