Goodbye Mr. Chips Important questions with answers notes.
Here are the notes for GoodBye Mr. Important Short Questions. Chips Novel for 2nd year students. These are important questions from Mr. Chips based on the detailed text. You can read this page online or bookmark it for later use.
Here are the answers to the questions for Goodbye Mr. Chips written by James Hilton. These notes are for F.A. and F.Sc. Second year students.
Short Q/A Notes
Q.1. What did Chips say to young Colley, the son of Colley whom Chips punished first in Brookfield?
Ans: Chips said to him: Colley, your father was the first boy I ever punished when I came here twenty-five years ago. He deserved it then and you deserve it now.
Q.2. Describe the atmosphere in the hall when Chips took his first class?
Ans: There was a sudden silence when Mr. Chips entered the classroom. The wall clock ticked behind him. It smelled of ink and varnish. The red rays of the setting sun penetrated through the glass windows. The sudden silence in the classroom startled Mr. Chips. He felt a little nervous.
Q.3. How did Mr. Wetherby advise Chips on the day of the Brookfield interview?
Ans: He asked for the chips to give Brookfield his youthful enthusiasm and it would give him something in return. He asked him not to let anyone play with him. He asked him to take a firm stand to maintain discipline.
Q.4. What was the name of Chips' doctor and how often did he see Chips?
Ans: The name of the chip doctor was Merivale. Every fortnight he called the chips.
Q.5. How long did Chips work at Melbury School and why did he not like it?
Ans: Chips worked at Melbury School for a year. He didn't like it because he was a bit tired and nervous there.
Q.6. How did Chips keep time when he lived in Mrs. Wickett's house?
Ans: The chips measured his time by signals from the past. He lives his life by the bells of Brookfield.
Q.7. What did Chips' doctor say about Chips?
Ans: The doctor said that she is better than him. He would not get any terrible disease. He would die of natural causes. He called the chips an unbeatable old boy.
Q.8. What did Chips do after the last bell rang in Brookfield when he lived in Mrs. Wickett's house?
Ans: After the last bell rang in Brookfield, the chips wound the clock, put up a wire barrier in front of the fire, turned off the gas and carried the detective novel to bed.
Q.9. What did the boys look like when Chips took his first class at Brookfield?
Ans: The great hall was full of five hundred bad boys. They looked like lecherous barbarians ready to attack him.
Q.10. What kind was Mr. Wetherby?
Ans: Wetherby was a director of Brookfield in 1870. He was sick then when the chips were added to him. He liked and respected chips. He was very gentle and cooperative. He had lively eyes.
Q.11. How did Chips enjoy his sleep?
Ans: Sleep came to him quickly and peacefully. His days and nights were equally full of dreams.
Q.12. What mischief was done in Chips' very first class at Brookfield, and by whom?
Ans: The boy dropped the lid of the table. His name was Colley.
Q.13. When was the structure of the Brookfield building rebuilt and expanded?
Ans: The main structure of Brookfield building was rebuilt and expanded during Govt
George I.
Q.14. Was Chips an ambitious teacher?
Ans: In his early twenties, he wanted to get a leadership position or a leadership position. After many repeated failures, he realized the inappropriateness of his qualification.
Q.15. When did Chips retire and what was presented to him on his retirement day?
Ans: Chips retired in 1913 at the age of sixty-five. At the time of his retirement, he was presented with a check, a desk and a clock.
Q.16. What was Chips social and academic status?
Ans: Chips in social and academic sense were respectable but he was no more brilliant.
Q.17. What was Chips's status at Brookfield in the sixties?
Ans: At sixty, Brookfield was in his person. He was the guest of honor at the Old Brookfieldian dinners.
Q.18. What did Brookfield look like?
Ans: Brookfield lay behind a row of old elm trees. It looked reddish brown. It consisted of a group of buildings from the eighteenth century.
Q.19. What kind of people did Brookfield supply?
Answer: It supplied judges, members of parliament, peers and bishops, merchants, etc.
Q.20. Does Brookfield have a good reputation?
Ans: There was a rise and fall in his fortune. However, it remained a good secondary school.
Q.21. What kinds of books did Chips have in his room?
Ans: The books were mostly classical. There were a few history books and detective novels.
Q.22. How was Chips's room decorated in Mrs. Wickett's house?
Ans: His room was decorated simply and with school master taste. There were several bookshelves, a mantelpiece, armchairs and some pictures.
Q.23. What condition was Mrs. Wickett's house in?
Ans: The house itself was ugly and disabled but comfortable. It was near Brookfield.
Q.24. What did Chips serve the boys?
Ans: He served the boys tea made from walnut cake and pancakes dipped in butter.
Q.25. What did Chips say to Mrs. Wickett about Major Collingwood?
Ans: He told her that he once punished Collinwood for climbing on the roof of the gym to retrieve a ball from the gutter. Maybe you broke your neck.
Q.26.How did Chips feel in the company of women?
Ans: Chips did not care for women. He was never comfortable with them. He considered the new woman of the nineties to be such a monstrous creature that it filled him with terror.
Q.27. What did Katherine Bridges look like?
Ans: She had blue flashing eyes and freckled cheeks and straight straw colored hair.
Q.28. What did Katherine think about women's rights?
Ans: She believed that women should be admitted to universities. She even thought they should have a vote.
Q.29. Why did Chips dislike Bernard Shaw and Ibsen and cycling?
Ans: Chips was a conventional person. He disliked Bernard Shaw and Ibsen for their disturbing plays. He didn't like women taking up cycling because he was against women's freedom.
Q.30. What did Chips see while climbing Great Gable?
Ans: One day while he was climbing Great Gable, he saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge.
Q.31. Why did Katherine start to like Chips?
Ans: She started liking Chips because he had gentle and quiet manners. She liked his honest opinions, even if they were outdated. She also liked his brown charming eyes.
Q.32. What was Katherine's occupation?
Ans: She was an unemployed tutor but she had already saved some money.
Q.33. What were Katherine's political views?
Ans: She had radical views in politics. They were impressed by the likes of Bernard Shaw and William Morris. She thought women should have the right to vote.
Q.34. Where and with whom did Chips go during the summer holidays of 1896?
Ans: He went to the Lake District in 1896 with his colleague Rowden.
Question 35. What did Katherine say to Chips the night before the wedding?
Ans: She said she feels like a new boy starting his first period with Chips. She asked if she should call him 'Sir' or 'Sir'. Chips would be right. Then she said, "Goodbye, Mr. Chips."
Q.36. What did Chips remember from his time with Katherine in the Lake District?
Ans: He remembered his evening walks with her. He remembered her cool voice and gay laugh. She was always a happy person. They were so eager, planning a future together, but he was a little serious, even a little overwhelmed.
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| Goodbye Mr Chips Class 12 Notes |
These notes have been created for the Federal Board and all the Boards in Punjab. If you want to get good grades in your second year, prepare these notes well. These notes are written to the point and are useful for all students whether they are intelligent or weak.
The title Goodbye Mr. Chips is taken from an expression that occurs twice throughout the novel. The night before their wedding, Katherine whispers "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", believing that once they are married, they will never be the same.
The book opens with Mr. Chips, an eighty-five-year-old man. He lives in Mrs. Wickett's house and she watches him sleep. He is a retired teacher from Brookfield School, which is across the street from where he now lives.
As she sits by Mrs. Wickett's fire, she reminisces about earlier episodes in her life. He was hired at the school in 1870 by a headmaster named Wetherby. Mr. Chips was a young teacher of Greek and Latin. He made the boy write 100 lines and then he did not bother him and became a councilor in London. Mr. Chips later tutored Colley's son and grandson.
In middle age he married a young woman named Katherine Bridges. She later died giving birth to his child, who also died. Still, she inspired him with her vivacious spirit. He briefly became acting headmaster and had a number of his students fight in World War I. When he retired and returned to teaching during WWII. He remembers many of his students and remembers their names as he dies.
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