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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chatteris ask Chips to do in Chapter 13?
(a) Do odd jobs at the school.
(b) Privately tutor some students.
(c) Speak to the school boys' parents.
(d) Fundraise for the school.

2. During what month of the year was the first former Brookfield student killed in the war?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) March.
(d) July.

3. Who once visited Brookfield in honor of Speech Day?
(a) Neville Chamberlain.
(b) Sir Robert Peel.
(c) Stanley Baldwin.
(d) David Lloyd George.

4. What is the first line in Chapter 13?
(a) "The War Years".
(b) "Retirement was a bore".
(c) "Will you be wanting anything else, sir?"
(d) "Good-bye, Mr. Chips".

5. What medical condition did Chatteris have?
(a) Gout.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) A heart murmur.

6. What does Chips note that one of the new teachers at Brookfield allows his class to do?
(a) To call him by his first name.
(b) To invite girls to visit at the school.
(c) To wear clothing other than their school uniforms.
(d) To miss class without punishment.

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

8. What did Chips wonder about in Chapter 16?
(a) He wondered who was now teaching in his old classroom.
(b) He wondered whether he could attend the school's year-end party.
(c) He wondered about what had happened to his former students.
(d) He wondered whether England would go to war again.

9. In what year did Chips retire?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1922.

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

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

12. In Chapter 13, what does Chatteris hope that Chips will be able to do to help him?
(a) Hold the school together.
(b) Convince the parents that all is well.
(c) Improve the students' test scores.
(d) Raise enough money to keep the school going.

13. Which of the following was the topic of the class that Chips taught in Chapter 14?
(a) The Roman arrival in England.
(b) Greek philosophy.
(c) Caesar.
(d) Greek architecture.

14. By what date did Chips hope that World War I would be over?
(a) Easter.
(b) St. Patrick's Day.
(c) Armistice Day.
(d) Christmas.

15. Whose death does Chips recall the new headmaster announcing in Chapter 10?
(a) The Duke of York's.
(b) King Edward VII's.
(c) Queen Victoria's.
(d) King George V's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chips feel about what he was asked to do after Chatteris' death?

2. In Chapter 9, which game was Chips congratulated for playing in a decent way?

3. How did Ralston claim to have doubled the school's endowment fund?

4. Why did Ralston leave Brookfield?

5. What kind of style did the new headmaster have?

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