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Quiz about Chalet School Summer Holidays

Chalet School Summer Holidays Trivia Quiz

The holidays don't often feature in school stories, but there are some accounts of events which do take place outside term. This quiz is all about things which happened in the summer holidays. Based on the books by Elinor Brent-Dyer.

A multiple-choice quiz by Lottie1001. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Lottie1001

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
296,122

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

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Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
268

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 15

1. Where did Madge and Joey spend the first week of their holidays during the first summer in the Tirol? Hint

Vienna

The Dolomites

Innsbruck

Paneirimo

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Question 2 of 15

2. What important event takes place at the beginning of the holidays at the end of "The Princess of the Chalet School"? Hint

Princess Elisaveta is crowned as Queen

Madge Bettany marries Dr. Jem Russell

Joey is presented with an award for saving the king's life

Juliet leaves to go to Oxford

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Question 3 of 15

3. Why has a new chalet been built on the lake shore during the holiday between "The Head Girl of the Chalet School" and "The Rivals of the Chalet School"? Hint

To house a new school

It will be a hotel

To accommodate all the extra pupils at the Chalet School

It is to be used as the school hall

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Question 4 of 15

4. Some of the Chalet girls take part in a Guide camp in the holidays after "The Chalet School and Jo". Where does the camp take place? Hint

Salzburg

Tiernsee

Baumersee

Zillertal

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Question 5 of 15

5. Who doesn't go home after staying at the Sonnalpe for part of the summer after "The New House at the Chalet School"? Hint

Jacky Bettany

Maeve Bettany

Mollie Bettany

Daphne Bettany

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Question 6 of 15

6. Why does the school close early for the summer holidays in "The Chalet School in Exile"? Hint

The Nazis have taken over Austria after the Anschluss

The headmistress is seriously ill

There have been very heavy rains and it is flooded out

There is an outbreak of measles

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Question 7 of 15

7. Why do the summer holidays finish earlier than normal in 1939 in "The Chalet School in Exile"? Hint

Because the holidays started very early

To avoid the autumn storms

To allow extra time for exams to place the girls in forms

Because the girls are being evacuated

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Question 8 of 15

8. Jo receives some new house guests at the end of the holidays before "The Highland Twins at the Chalet School". Who are they? Hint

Shiena, Flora and Fiona MacDonald

Frieda and Bruno von Ahlen

Emmie and Joanna Linders

Gillian and Joyce Linton

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Question 9 of 15

9. Why doesn't Jacynth return home for the holidays at the end of "Gay From China at the Chalet School"? Hint

Her parents have been bombed out

Her aunt has died

She is going to help Joey Maynard look after the triplets

She is in hospital after complications from an illness

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Question 10 of 15

10. Mary-Lou Trelawney moves house during the summer holidays before "Three Go to the Chalet School". Where was her old home? Hint

Cornwall

Guernsey

Yorkshire

Scotland

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Question 11 of 15

11. In "Joey Goes to the Oberland", who does Joey meet at Boulogne? Hint

Evadne Lannis

Simone de Bersac

Cornelia Flower

Frieda von Ahlen

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Question 12 of 15

12. At the end of the holidays after "A Problem for the Chalet School", who is Biddy O'Ryan expecting to meet at Victoria Station? Hint

Nancy Wilmot

Kathie Ferrars

Jo Maynard

Mary-Lou Trelawney

13. Who is told, during the holidays following "The Coming of Age of the Chalet School", that she won't be returning to her old school, but will be travelling to Switzerland for the start of the new term? Hint

Richenda Fry

Ruey Richardson

Rosamund Lilley

Melanie Lucas

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Question 14 of 15

14. Who suffers from appendicitis in "Joey and Co. in Tirol"? Hint

Charles

Joey

Margot

Anna

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Question 15 of 15

15. How do the Maynard family travel to the Tiernsee for the holidays in "A Future Chalet School Girl"? Hint

In a minibus

By aeroplane

On the train

By boat

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where did Madge and Joey spend the first week of their holidays during the first summer in the Tirol?

Answer: The Dolomites

Juliet and Grizel had been invited to join the Maranis in Vienna, leaving Madge and Joey free to explore the little towns of Botzen and Meran in the South Tirol for the first week of their holiday. Juliet and Grizel were expected to join them in Paneirimo for the second week.

2. What important event takes place at the beginning of the holidays at the end of "The Princess of the Chalet School"?

Answer: Madge Bettany marries Dr. Jem Russell

The wedding ceremony was performed in the big school-room by the English chaplain from Innsbruck three days after the end of term. Later in the holidays, Joey is presented with an award for saving Princess Elisaveta from being kidnapped by her father's cousin.

The Belsornian law is changed to allow Elisaveta to become queen, but her grandfather is still alive at the end of the story. Juliet has left school, and will go to England to read Maths at the Royal Holloway College at the end of the holidays.

3. Why has a new chalet been built on the lake shore during the holiday between "The Head Girl of the Chalet School" and "The Rivals of the Chalet School"?

Answer: To house a new school

The new chalet has been built on the opposite shore of the lake, at Buchau, to house a new school, which is being moved from England by its headmistress, Miss Browne. The new school changes its name from St. Margaret's to St. Scholastika's in honour of one of the local saints.

4. Some of the Chalet girls take part in a Guide camp in the holidays after "The Chalet School and Jo". Where does the camp take place?

Answer: Baumersee

The girls travel by boat to Scholastika, where they board charabancs which take them to the Baumersee for two weeks.

5. Who doesn't go home after staying at the Sonnalpe for part of the summer after "The New House at the Chalet School"?

Answer: Jacky Bettany

Dick and Mollie Bettany bring Bride and Jacky to spend the summer in Europe, and visit their families. After seeing Mollie's family in Ireland, they return to the Sonnalpe, where Madge has agreed to look after all of their children while they go back to India.

They were going to take Jacky with them, since he is probably small enough not to be adversely affected by the climate, but agree to Madge's suggestion that he should stay with Rix, Peggy and Bride, since Mollie is expecting an addition to the family in the spring. Maeve, and her twin brother, Maurice, are the babies who are born then. Daphne isn't born until many years later.

6. Why does the school close early for the summer holidays in "The Chalet School in Exile"?

Answer: The Nazis have taken over Austria after the Anschluss

The Gestapo became convinced that some of the pupils were trying to hide something, and made life very difficult for the pupils and staff. Parents of Austrian and German girls were ordered to send their daughters to German schools. Other parents wanted their daughters to go home because of the political situation, so there were not so many pupils during the last half term in the Tirol. Reluctantly, Madge decided to close the school in the Tirol and move it to safety in Guernsey.

7. Why do the summer holidays finish earlier than normal in 1939 in "The Chalet School in Exile"?

Answer: To avoid the autumn storms

The School is reopening in Guernsey so Janie Lucy advises Madge to start the term before the autumn storms blow up in September to avoid a lot of the girls suffering from seasickness.

8. Jo receives some new house guests at the end of the holidays before "The Highland Twins at the Chalet School". Who are they?

Answer: Shiena, Flora and Fiona MacDonald

Jo is asked by a mutual friend to take in the girls of the MacDonald family because the Admiralty has requisitioned their home on the island of Erisay.

9. Why doesn't Jacynth return home for the holidays at the end of "Gay From China at the Chalet School"?

Answer: Her aunt has died

Her aunt, who was her only relation, died after an operation leaving Jacynth alone in the world, but her friend, Gay Lambert, invites her to stay for the holidays.

10. Mary-Lou Trelawney moves house during the summer holidays before "Three Go to the Chalet School". Where was her old home?

Answer: Cornwall

Mary-Lou, her mother and her grandmother had been living in Polquenel in Cornwall, but the air wasn't good for her mother's health, and there was no suitable school for Mary-Lou, so the family move to Howells Village in Armishire, where Mary-Lou can attend the Chalet School and her mother will be away from the damp westerly winds.

11. In "Joey Goes to the Oberland", who does Joey meet at Boulogne?

Answer: Evadne Lannis

Evadne was waiting for a friend, who hadn't come because of the bad weather, when she saw Joey and her family on the quayside at Boulogne. She and her father escorted Joey to the train for Paris, where Joey was expecting to spend the night with Simone.

12. At the end of the holidays after "A Problem for the Chalet School", who is Biddy O'Ryan expecting to meet at Victoria Station?

Answer: Kathie Ferrars

Kathie Ferrars has accepted a job as a new mistress at the Chalet school, and Biddy O'Ryan, who is returning after her own holidays, will accompany Kathie on her first trip to Switzerland.

Answer: Richenda Fry

Richenda knew that she would have to leave her old school soon, since she would be too old for it, but the move is precipitated when her father finds her in his Chinese Room holding his valuable Khang-he vase.

14. Who suffers from appendicitis in "Joey and Co. in Tirol"?

Answer: Charles

Charles wakes Len because he has a pain and doesn't want to disturb his mother, who hasn't been well. However the pain doesn't subside with Len's treatment, so she calls her father who diagnoses appendicitis and summons an ambulance to take Charles to the Sanatorium for an operation.

15. How do the Maynard family travel to the Tiernsee for the holidays in "A Future Chalet School Girl"?

Answer: In a minibus

Thanks to a grateful patient, Jack has been able to buy a minibus which is big enough to transport the entire clan, including Bruno, and their luggage.

Source: Author Lottie1001

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