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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chips wonder about in Chapter 16?

2. How did Chips deal with tense situations at the school?

3. Where did Chips and Sir John Rivers take a walk together?

4. How did Ralston feel about Chips?

5. What did Chips note had changed among students and masters at Brookfield?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What happened after Headmaster Meldrum died?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is irony? What are some examples of irony in the novel "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"? How do those examples affect the tone of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

What struggles and challenges does Chips' face throughout the novel, "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"? How does he overcome them? How do those challenges change him as a character?

Essay Topic 3

What is an anecdote? What are some examples of anecdotes in "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"? How do those anecdotes affect the tone of the novel?

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