CHAPTER 1 Important Questions
Q.1. Who is the writer of the novel," Good Bye Mr. Chips"?Ans: James Hilton is the writer of the novel Good Bye Mr. Chips"
Q.2. What was the real name of Mr. Chips?
Ans: His real name was Mr. Chipping but his nickname was Mr. Chips.
Q.3. When was Mr. Chips born?
Ans: Mr. Chips was born in 1848 and was taken to the Great Exhibition in 1851 as a toddling child.
Q.4. Where did Mr, Chips live after his retirement?
Ans: After his retirement, Mr. Chips lived at Mrs. Wicketl's just across the road from the Brookfield School, so that he could visit school easily.
Q.5. How did Mr. Chips measure his time when he was living at Mrs. Wickett's house?
Ans: When he was living at Mrs. Wicket, Mr. Chips used to measure his time by the signals of the past just like a sea captain. He used to live his life according to the bells of Brookfield.
Q.6. What did Mr. Chips use to do in his old age?
Ans: In his old age, Mr. Chips liked to sit by the fire, drink a cup of tea and listen to the school bells. He used to read a detective novel at night.
Q.7. What did Mr. Chips do before going to bed?
Ans: Before going to bed, He used to wind up the clock, put the wire guard in front of the fire. Then he turned out the gas and carried a detective novel to bed.
Q.8. Who was Dr. Merivale?
Ans: Dr. Merrivale was Mr. Chips' doctor and friend. He visited him every fortnight or so. He admired him and said that he was fitter than the doctor himself and was going to die a natural death.
Q9. What did he say about Chips' health? what did he advise her when Mr. Chips caught a cold?
Ans: He admired his health and said that he was fitter than the doctor himself and was going to die a natural death. He advised Mrs. Wicket to take special care of him as it was too cold.
Q.10. Who made a century when Chips came for an interview?
Ans:When Chips came for the interview, Brookfield was playing a cricket match against Barnhurst and one of the Barnhurst boys, a chubby little fellow made a brilliant century.
Q.11. When and why did he join Brookfield?
Ans: After teaching a year at Melbury, he joined Brookfield in 1870. Because he disliked the previous school as his discipline was not good there. Moreover, he has dragged there a good deal.
Q.12. Briefly explain his preliminary interview with Mr.Wetherby?
Ans: It was a sunny day in July 1870 when he had his first interview with Mr. Wetherby. The air was full of the sweet smell of flowers. Wetherby said to him," You are a young man, Mr.Chipping and Brookfield is an old foundation. Youth and age often combine well.
Q.13. What advice did Mr. Wetherby give to Mr. Chips? What kind of person Wetherby was?
Ans: Wetherby was very fatherly and courteous. He behaved very politely with Chips. He advised him to take a firm attitude from the beginning that's the secret to maintain discipline in the class.
Q.14. Who was the first boy punished by Mr. Chips at Brookfield?
Ans: Colley, a red-haired boy, was the first one punished by Chips at Brookfield. He dropped the desk lid during the first class of Mr. Chips. Chips punished him by giving him a hundred lines to write.
Q.15. What did Mr. Chips say to the son of Mr. Colley?
Ans: Mr. Chips said," Your father was the first boy I ever punished when I came here twenty-five years ago. He deserved it then and you deserved it now.
Q.16. What did Mr. Chips say to the third Colley?
Ans: He said that he was a fine example of inherited traditions. He said that his grandfather was a stupid fellow. His father was not better either and he was the biggest fool of the lot.
Q.17. What was the fashion adopted by Mr. Chips during his youth days?
Ans: Mr. Chips was fresh-complexioned, high collard and side-whiskered young man. This was the old fashion adopted by the people in those days.
CHAPTER.02 Short Questions
Q.1. What was the history of Brookfield Grammar School?Ans: It was established as a grammar school in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It was surrounded by a line of old elms trees. The main structure of the building was rebuilt and extended in the reign of George-1
Q.2. What kind of people and professionals did Brookfield supply?
Ans: It supplied fair samples of history-making men like judges, members of parliament, colonial administrators, a few peers, and bishops. It also turned out merchants manufacturers, professional men, country squires, and parsons.
Q.3. What were the qualifications of Mr. Chips?
Q.4. What was presented to Chips on his retirement?
Q.6. What were Chip's ambitions when he joined Brookfield?
Ans: Yes, Chips was an ambitious teacher. When he joined Brookfield, he wanted to get headship or the senior-most mastership of a first-class school.
Q.7. What was the status of Brookfield School?
Ans: Brookfield was a good school of the second rank. But lt supplied fair samples of history-making men for England.
Q.8. Write a note on Brookfield village.
Ans: Brookfield was a smal! dependent village and open fe: country. was situated on the East Coast of England.
Q.9. Write a note on Brookfield Public School.
Ans: It was a grammar school of the second rank in Brookfield. It was established in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It produced many history making people for England.
Q.11. How a football match was made possible at the Brookfield?
Ans: It was due to the great and brave efforts of Katherine, a match made possible between Mission school and Brookfield.
Q.12. Narrate the activities of Mr. Chips after his retirement?
Ans: He invited the new boys to tea, watched their matches, dined with the heads and the masters, and took on the preparation of the new edition of Brookfield directory.
Ans: He was an ordinary teacher with inadequate qualification. He was simply a graduate from Cambridge. Moreover, his degree was mediocre.
Q.4. What was presented to Chips on his retirement?
Ans: In 1913, when he was of sixty five, he retired. On his retirement, he was presented with a cheque, a writing desk and a clock.
Q.5. "A decent career decently closed" Explain.
Ans: It means that Chips spent his career in a decent, honorable and graceful manner. He served Brookfield in a dignified manner and left it with honour and dignity.
Ans: It means that Chips spent his career in a decent, honorable and graceful manner. He served Brookfield in a dignified manner and left it with honour and dignity.
Q.6. What were Chip's ambitions when he joined Brookfield?
Ans: Yes, Chips was an ambitious teacher. When he joined Brookfield, he wanted to get headship or the senior-most mastership of a first-class school.
Q.7. What was the status of Brookfield School?
Ans: Brookfield was a good school of the second rank. But lt supplied fair samples of history-making men for England.
Q.8. Write a note on Brookfield village.
Ans: Brookfield was a smal! dependent village and open fe: country. was situated on the East Coast of England.
Q.9. Write a note on Brookfield Public School.
Ans: It was a grammar school of the second rank in Brookfield. It was established in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It produced many history making people for England.
Q.11. How a football match was made possible at the Brookfield?
Ans: It was due to the great and brave efforts of Katherine, a match made possible between Mission school and Brookfield.
Q.12. Narrate the activities of Mr. Chips after his retirement?
Ans: He invited the new boys to tea, watched their matches, dined with the heads and the masters, and took on the preparation of the new edition of Brookfield directory.
CHAPTER 3 Important Questions
Q.1. How was the room Mrs. Wickett let to Chips? OR How was Mr. Chips’ room decorated at Mrs. Wicketts? OR Describe Mrs. Wickett's house.
Ans: Mrs. Wickett's house was situated across the road to Brookfield. The house itself was ugly and pretentious. But that did not matter. It was convenient for Mr. Chips. The room Mrs. Wickett let to him was small. But it was comfortable and well lit. His room was decorated simply with schoolmasterly taste.
Q.2. What would Mr. Chips do during mild afternoons while at Mrs. Wickett's?
Ans: Whenever the weather was mild enough, Chips would go to the playing-fields and watch games. He liked to smile and speak to the boys there.
Q.3. How did Mr. Chips entertain his students at Mrs. Wickett's house? OR How did Chips meet the newcomers?
Ans: Mr. Chips made a special point of getting to know all the new boys and having them to tea during their first term. He always ordered a walnut cake and during the winter term, there were crumpets too. He sent them off at 5 o’clock.
Q.4. What would Chips ask the new boys who came to see him?
Ans: Mr. Chips asked the boys about their hometown. He also asked whether they had any family connections at Brookfield.
Q.5. What did the boys comment after tea with Chips?
Ans: They enjoy the company of Chips and the taste of the tea. They call him a decent boy. They make fun of how Chips remember when to push them off
Q.6. What did Branksome tell Mr. Chips?
Ans: He told Mr. Chips that he was the nephew of Major Collingwood who was an old student of Mr. Chips. Once Chips had thrashed Collingwood for climbing on to the gymnasium roof to get a ball out of the gutter. He might have broken his neck.
Q.7. What did Mr. Chips tell Mrs. Wickett about Major Collingwood?
Ans: He told her that once he had punished Collingwood for climbing on to the gymnasium roof to get a ball out of the gutter. He might have broken his neck.
Q.8. Who was Mrs. Wicket and what were here service for Brookfield and Mr. Chips?
Ans: Mrs. Wickett was the landlady of Mr. Chips. She had worked as the in-charge of the linen-room at the school before she left the job. She let a room to Chips after his retirement and served him till his death.
Q.9. What was the financial condition of Mr. Chips after retirement?
Ans: Mr. Chips had no financial worries. His pension was enough. He had also saved He could afford everything and anything he wanted.
Q.10. What kind of books did Mr. Chips have in his room? OR What kind of books did Chips read?
Ans: Chips usually read classical books. There were a few books on history and belles-lettres. There was also a pile of cheap detective novels in his room.
Q.11. What were Chips' views about Latin and Greek?
Ans: Mr. Chips thought that Latin and Greek were dead languages from which Englishmen ought to learn a few quotations. Despite teaching for a long period, he was not a good classical scholar.
Q.12. What was the misconception about Mr. Chips' marital status?
Ans: People thought that Mr. Chips was a bachelor. This was oddly incorrect He had married but it was so long ago that none of the staff at Brookfield could remember his wife.
Q.13. Who was Major Collingwood?
Ans: Collingwood was an old student of Mr. Chips. Mr. Chips remembered him very well because he had thrashed him once for climbing onto the gymnasium roof to get the ball out of the gutter. He might have broken his neck. Later. he joined the army. He died in Egypt during World War I.
Q.14. Why did Mr. Chips choose to live at Mrs. Wickett's? OR Why did Mr. Chips live at Mrs. Wickett’s house after retirement?
Ans: Mr. Chips chose to live at Mrs. Wickett's because it was convenient. Living across the road to Brookfield provided Chips an opportunity to keep close contact with Brookfield.
Mr. Chips chapter 4 questions
Q.1. What thing did stir Mr. Chips' memories?
Ans: The warmth of the fire and the gentle aroma of tea stirred his memories.
Q.2. When was Chips appointed housemaster?
Ans: Chips was appointed housemaster in 1896 at the ripe age of forty-eight.
Q.3. Who went with Mr. Chips to the Lake District?
Ans: He with his colleague Rowden went up to the Lake District to spend his summer holidays.
Q.4. How much time did Mr. Chips and Rowden spend together in the Lake District?
Ans: They spent a week together in walking and climbing.
Q.5. Where did Mr. Chips stay in the Lake District?
Ans: He stayed alone in a small farmhouse at Wasdale Head.
Q.6. How did Mr. chips meet Katherine for the first time? OR Describe the 1st meeting of Mr. Chips and Katherine.
Ans: One day, climbing on Great Gable, he saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge. He hastened to her because he thought that she was in trouble and needed masculine help. But he slipped and wrenched his ankle. The woman was Katherine Bridges. It came out that she was not in danger. She was signalling to her friend.
Q.7. How did Chips feel in the company of women?
Ans: Chips did not care for women. He never felt at ease with them. He considered the new women of the nineties monstrous creatures, which filled him with horror.
Q.8. Why did Chips not like Bernard Shaw and Ibsen and bicycling? OR What were Chips' views about modern women?
Ans: Mr. Chips didn't like modern women of the nineties. He was shocked by the women riding a bicycle and reading Bernard Shaw or Ibsen. He disliked Shaw and Ibsen for their reprehensible views.
Q.9. What notion did Chips have about women? OR What were the views of chips about women?
Ans: Mr. Chips believed that nice women were weak, timid and delicate, and those nice men treated them with a polite but rather distant chivalry.
Q.10. Give a physical description of Katherine Bridges. How did Katherine look? OR Write a note on Katherine bridges.
Ans: Katherine was a young girl of 25. She had blue flashing eyes, freckled cheeks, and smooth straw-coloured hair. She was a governess out of job. She married Chips in 1896. She died during child-birth on April 1, 1898.
Q.11. Why did Katherine visit Chips on her bicycle?
Ans: Katherine visited him daily on her bicycle because she thought herself responsible for the accident.
Q.12. What did Chips think when Katherine visited him alone?
Ans: When Chips saw a young girl like Katherine visiting a man alone in a farmhouse, he began to wonder what the world was coming to.
Q.13. What was the profession of Katherine?
Ans: She was a governess out of job. She had already saved a little money.
Q.14. Why did Chips not contradict Katherine's political views when she expressed them to him?
Ans: Mr. Chips did not think it necessary to contradict Katherine's political views. He was inarticulate.
Q.15. How did Katherine begin to like Chips?
Ans: She began to like him because he had gentle and quiet manners because his views and thoughts were out-dated, but honest and also because his eyes were brown and looked charming when he smiled.
Q.16. What were the political views of Mr. Chips?
Ans: Mr. Chips was conservative in politics. He disapproved of modernity. He disliked Bernard Shaw, Ibsen and William Morris for their reprehensible views.
Q.17. What was the most interesting event in the Novel?
Ans: The most interesting event was when one day standing at the base of Great Gable, Mr. Chips saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge. He rushed to help her but wrenched his ankle in doing so. The girl helped him to reach his lodgings. She was Katherine Bridges.
Q.18. What were Katherine's views about middle-aged men before meeting Chips?
Ans: Katherine had always thought that middle-aged men who read 'The Times' and disapproved modernity were bores. She thought that they couldn't win her affection. But Mr. Chips was an exception.
Q.19. What kind of political views did Katherine have?
Ans: In politics, Katherine Bridges was a radical with leanings towards the views of Bernard Shah and William Morris. She believed that women ought to be admitted to universities. She also thought they ought to have a vote.
Q.20. Why was the spring of 1896 important / special for Chips? OR Why did Mr. Chips remember Spring 1896?
Ans: In the spring of 1896 Chips went to the Lake District where he had a chance meeting with Katherine Bridges, his future wife. That’s why it was a special time for him and he could not forget it.
Ans: The warmth of the fire and the gentle aroma of tea stirred his memories.
Q.2. When was Chips appointed housemaster?
Ans: Chips was appointed housemaster in 1896 at the ripe age of forty-eight.
Q.3. Who went with Mr. Chips to the Lake District?
Ans: He with his colleague Rowden went up to the Lake District to spend his summer holidays.
Q.4. How much time did Mr. Chips and Rowden spend together in the Lake District?
Ans: They spent a week together in walking and climbing.
Q.5. Where did Mr. Chips stay in the Lake District?
Ans: He stayed alone in a small farmhouse at Wasdale Head.
Q.6. How did Mr. chips meet Katherine for the first time? OR Describe the 1st meeting of Mr. Chips and Katherine.
Ans: One day, climbing on Great Gable, he saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge. He hastened to her because he thought that she was in trouble and needed masculine help. But he slipped and wrenched his ankle. The woman was Katherine Bridges. It came out that she was not in danger. She was signalling to her friend.
Q.7. How did Chips feel in the company of women?
Ans: Chips did not care for women. He never felt at ease with them. He considered the new women of the nineties monstrous creatures, which filled him with horror.
Q.8. Why did Chips not like Bernard Shaw and Ibsen and bicycling? OR What were Chips' views about modern women?
Ans: Mr. Chips didn't like modern women of the nineties. He was shocked by the women riding a bicycle and reading Bernard Shaw or Ibsen. He disliked Shaw and Ibsen for their reprehensible views.
Q.9. What notion did Chips have about women? OR What were the views of chips about women?
Ans: Mr. Chips believed that nice women were weak, timid and delicate, and those nice men treated them with a polite but rather distant chivalry.
Q.10. Give a physical description of Katherine Bridges. How did Katherine look? OR Write a note on Katherine bridges.
Ans: Katherine was a young girl of 25. She had blue flashing eyes, freckled cheeks, and smooth straw-coloured hair. She was a governess out of job. She married Chips in 1896. She died during child-birth on April 1, 1898.
Q.11. Why did Katherine visit Chips on her bicycle?
Ans: Katherine visited him daily on her bicycle because she thought herself responsible for the accident.
Q.12. What did Chips think when Katherine visited him alone?
Ans: When Chips saw a young girl like Katherine visiting a man alone in a farmhouse, he began to wonder what the world was coming to.
Q.13. What was the profession of Katherine?
Ans: She was a governess out of job. She had already saved a little money.
Q.14. Why did Chips not contradict Katherine's political views when she expressed them to him?
Ans: Mr. Chips did not think it necessary to contradict Katherine's political views. He was inarticulate.
Q.15. How did Katherine begin to like Chips?
Ans: She began to like him because he had gentle and quiet manners because his views and thoughts were out-dated, but honest and also because his eyes were brown and looked charming when he smiled.
Q.16. What were the political views of Mr. Chips?
Ans: Mr. Chips was conservative in politics. He disapproved of modernity. He disliked Bernard Shaw, Ibsen and William Morris for their reprehensible views.
Q.17. What was the most interesting event in the Novel?
Ans: The most interesting event was when one day standing at the base of Great Gable, Mr. Chips saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge. He rushed to help her but wrenched his ankle in doing so. The girl helped him to reach his lodgings. She was Katherine Bridges.
Q.18. What were Katherine's views about middle-aged men before meeting Chips?
Ans: Katherine had always thought that middle-aged men who read 'The Times' and disapproved modernity were bores. She thought that they couldn't win her affection. But Mr. Chips was an exception.
Q.19. What kind of political views did Katherine have?
Ans: In politics, Katherine Bridges was a radical with leanings towards the views of Bernard Shah and William Morris. She believed that women ought to be admitted to universities. She also thought they ought to have a vote.
Q.20. Why was the spring of 1896 important / special for Chips? OR Why did Mr. Chips remember Spring 1896?
Ans: In the spring of 1896 Chips went to the Lake District where he had a chance meeting with Katherine Bridges, his future wife. That’s why it was a special time for him and he could not forget it.
Mr. Chips chapter 5 questions
Q.1. What was Katherine's views about Chips' profession?
Ans: She liked being among boys. She was happy that Chips was a teacher and not a lawyer, a dentist or a broker or a big businessman. She liked the teaching profession because a teacher influences those who are going to matter to the world.
Q.2. Whee was Katherine married?
Ans: She had no parents. She was married from the house of an aunt in Ealing in London.
Q.3. What did Katherine say to Chips on the night before their wedding?
Ans: She said that she felt like a new boy beginning his first term with him. She asked if she should call him `Sir' or 'Mr. Chips'. He said 'Mr. Chips would be the right thing. Then she said, Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Q.4. How did Chips depreciate himself before his marriage?
Ans: Chips depreciated himself and his attainments before Katherine. He told her about his mediocre degree, occasional difficulties of discipline, the certainty that he would never get a promotion and his complete ineligibility to marry a young, ambitious girl.
Q.5. What different scenes did Mr. Chips remember on the eve of his wedding? Describe Chips’ marriage.
Ans: Mr. Chips on his way to the hotel, remembered, a handsome clop-clopping in the roadway, green pale gas lamps flickering on wet pavement, newsboys shouting something about South Africa and Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.
Q.6. What were Katherine's views about Chips profession? OR Was Katherine happy with Chips being a teacher?
Ans: She liked being among boys. She was happy that Chips was a teacher and not a lawyer, a dentist or a broker o a big businessman. She liked the teaching profession because a teacher influences those who are going to matter to the world.
Ans: She liked being among boys. She was happy that Chips was a teacher and not a lawyer, a dentist or a broker or a big businessman. She liked the teaching profession because a teacher influences those who are going to matter to the world.
Q.2. Whee was Katherine married?
Ans: She had no parents. She was married from the house of an aunt in Ealing in London.
Q.3. What did Katherine say to Chips on the night before their wedding?
Ans: She said that she felt like a new boy beginning his first term with him. She asked if she should call him `Sir' or 'Mr. Chips'. He said 'Mr. Chips would be the right thing. Then she said, Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
Q.4. How did Chips depreciate himself before his marriage?
Ans: Chips depreciated himself and his attainments before Katherine. He told her about his mediocre degree, occasional difficulties of discipline, the certainty that he would never get a promotion and his complete ineligibility to marry a young, ambitious girl.
Q.5. What different scenes did Mr. Chips remember on the eve of his wedding? Describe Chips’ marriage.
Ans: Mr. Chips on his way to the hotel, remembered, a handsome clop-clopping in the roadway, green pale gas lamps flickering on wet pavement, newsboys shouting something about South Africa and Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street.
Q.6. What were Katherine's views about Chips profession? OR Was Katherine happy with Chips being a teacher?
Ans: She liked being among boys. She was happy that Chips was a teacher and not a lawyer, a dentist or a broker o a big businessman. She liked the teaching profession because a teacher influences those who are going to matter to the world.
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