Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
BY JAMES HILTON
Questions
& Answers
CHAPTER NO. 1
Q.1 How did
Mr. Chips measure his time?
Ans. When one
gets on in years seems to pass like lazy cattle moving and grazing indolently.
Mr. Chips still measured his time by the signals of the past just some old sea
captain while living at Mrs. Wickett. (Chips’s landlady). For his days and
night were equally full of dreaming.
Q.2 What did
Mr. Chips and his landlady keep their time?
Ans. Both Mr.
Chips and his landlady kept Brookfeiled time far more than
Greenwich Time. They followed the school bells for their daily
routine.
Q.3 What did
Mr. Chips do when the last bell rang?
Ans. Mr. Chips always
wound up the clock, put the wire guard in front of the fire, turned out the gas,
and carried a detective novel to bed after the last bell clanged at Brookfield.
Q.4 How did
sleep come to Mr Chips?
Ans. Scarcely had
he read more than a page of the detective novel than sleep came to him
peacefully like a mystic. He entered another world. For his days and night
were equally full of dreaming.
Q.5 What type
of person was Dr. Marivale?
Ans. Mr. Marivale
was Chips’s doctor. He was a jolly person. He visited Chips every fortnight or
so. He would often say that Chips was fitter than he. He called Chips a
remarkable old boy. He said that Chips had got no disease except old. He said
that Chips would die a natural death.
Q.6 How did
Dr. Marivale speak of Mr. Chips’s health?
Ans. Dr. Marivale,
a family doctor of Chips, used to visit Mr. Chips every fortnight or so and
consoled him by saying, “My dear fellow,
you are fitter than I am. You have passed the age when people fall prey to
fatal diseases.” He was a jolly sort of person.
Q.7
What did Dr Marivale say about Chips’ enviable health?
Ans.
Dr Marivale said that there was really nothing
the matter with Chips. Chips was fitter than he was. He was past the age when
people got those horrible diseases. Chips was one of the few lucky ones who were
going to die a really natural death.
Q.8 What did
Mr. Chips remember about his preliminary interview?
Q.9 How was
the day when Chips came to Brookfield for the interview?
Ans. Mr. Chips
remembered his preliminary interview. It was a bright sunny day in July 1870. The air was full of flower scents and the plick-plock of cricket on the
pitch. A match between Brookfield and Barnhurst team was being played outside.
Q.10 What sort/type
of person was Mr Wetherby?
Ans. Mr. Wetherby was very
fatherly, kind and courteous by temperament and he died in 1870 during the
summer vacation. He served Brookfield for about thirty years. He joined Brookfield
in 1840 and restored its fortune somewhat.
Q.11 What did
Wetherby advise Mr Chips?
Ans. Mr. Wetherby was
a fatherly, kind and courteous person. He advised Mr Chips to take up a firm
attitude from the beginning. That’s the secret of maintaining discipline. He
asked him to work with enthusiasm.
Q.12 What did
Mr Chips remember about his first lecture at Brookfield?
Ans. Mr. Chips’s first tremendous ordeal at Brookfield was to take up his prep class.
It was a class of 500 uncivilized ruffians, just pitiless and implacable. It
was great fun for them to tease and make fun of the new teachers,
and something of a tradition at Brookfield.
Q.13. Who was
Colley senior?
Ans. Colley
senior was
the first boy whom Mr Chips punished in his first prep class at Brookfield. He
had dropped
a desk lid on the floor and Mr
Chips assigned him to write a hundred lines. Mr Chips also punished the son
of Colley senior.
Q.14 Who was
Colley junior?
Ans. Colley
junior was
the grandson of the Colley senior. Mr. Chips also punished by assigning him to
write a hundred lines and called him the biggest fool of the
lot.
Q.15 What did
Mrs Wickett see when she came in with his cup of tea?
Ans. The waves of
humour and sadness swept over him very often until tears fell. So that when she
When Mrs. Came in with his cup of tea she did not know whether he had been
laughing or crying. And neither did Chips himself.
Q.16 Who was
Mrs. Wickett?
Ans. Mrs. Wickett
was a kind lady. She was the landlady of Chips. She took much care of him and
his frequent visitors. She had been in charge of the linen room at Brookfield.
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CHAPTER NO.2
Q.1 Where was
Brookfield situated?
Ans. Brookfield
Grammar School was an old foundation. It was established in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. It was situated across the road behind a rampart of ancient elms,
russet under its autumn mental of creepers. Mr. Wetherby was the headmaster
when Mr. Chips joined it in 1870.
Q.2 What sort
of famous people did Brookfield produce?
Ans. Brookfield
was the first-class school of the second rank. It mostly produced fair samples of
Judges, members of Parliament, colonial administrators, peers, bishops,
merchants, manufacturers, country squires and parsons. But its subsequent
history never raised it to front-rank status.
Q.3 What was
Mr. Chips’s dream in his early twenties?
Q.4 What were
the ambitions of Chips as a school teacher?
Ans. Mr. Chips wanted
to get the senior mastership or headship in any first-class school. After
repeated trials and failures, that he realized the inadequacy of his
qualification. He did not have any private means and family connections of any
importance.
Q.5 When did
Mr. Chips feel that odds were against him to better himself?
Q.6 What did
Mr. Chips feel at forty?
Ans. After repeated
trials and failures he came to know that the odds were heavily against
him to better himself by moving elsewhere. He realized the inadequacy of his
qualification. At forty he was rooted, settled and quite happy at Brookfield.
Q.7 When did
Mr. Chips get his first retirement?
Q.8 What was
Mr. Chips presented with at farewell party?
Ans. In 1913 Mr. Chips
turned sixty-five got his retirement. He was presented with a
cheque, a writing desk and a clock at the farewell party. A decent career ended quite
decently at Brookfield.
Q.9 What was
the common health problem of Chips?
Ans. Although,
Chips was past the age people got horrible diseases and was fitter than his
physician. Dr. Marivale. However, he needed care in Autumn and winter because
his chest put a strain on his heart. This was the only problem with him.
CHAPTER NO. 3
Q.1 What kind
of room did Mrs. Wickett let to Mr. Chips?
Ans. Mrs. Wickett
let Mr. Chips a room. It was a small, luxurious and sunny room. It was furnished simply and with
schoolmasterly taste. The house itself was ugly and pretentious, but that
didn’t matter; it was convenient to him.
Q.2 What did
Mr. Chips like when the weather was mild?
Ans. When the
weather was mild, Mr. Chips liked to stroll across the playing fields
in the afternoon. There he watched the games of the boys. He also liked
to smile and exchanged a few words with them when they touched their
caps to him.
Q.3 What kind
of things were there in Mr. Chips’s room?
Q.4 How was
the room decorated at Mrs. Wickett?
Ans. The room
was decorated with a few bookshelves and sporting trophies; a
mantelpiece crowded with fixture cards and signed photographs of boys and men;
a worn turkey carpet; a big easy chair; pictures on the wall of the Acropolis and
the Forum.
Q.5 What did
Mr. Chips do at Mrs. Wickett?
Q.6 What did
his guests enjoy to see at Mrs. Wicketts?
Ans. Mr. Chips used
to invite the new boys & teachers to tea. He served them with tea and a
walnut cake with pink icing from Raddaway’s. His guests enjoyed seeing him making
tea and mixing spoonfuls from different caddies.
Q.7 Why did
Mr. Chips punish Collingwood?
Ans. Mr. Chips
once thrashed
Collingwood for he was climbing onto the gymnasium roof to get a ball
out of the gutter in a very dangerous way. He might have broken his neck.
Q.8 Who was
Major Collingwood?
Ans. Major
Collingwood was
the uncle of Young Branksome. Major Collingwood was killed in Egypt. He was
awarded with D.S.O (Distinguished Service Order)
Q.9 What sorts of book were found in Mr. Chips’
room?
Ans. The books found in Mr. Chips’ room were chiefly
classical. However, there were books of history, belles-letters, great
literature and cheap editions of detective novels. He used to read Virgil and
Xenophone for some time.
Q.10 What had
Mr. Chips enjoyments at Mrs. Wickett?
Ans. Mr. Chips had
some peaceful enjoyments, such as
reading, talking remembering, taking tea, and receiving callers, making
correcting in the Brookfieldian directory and writing occasional letters at
Mrs. Wickett. He also watched the matches when the weather was mild.
Q.11 Which
subjects did Mr. Chips teach at Brookfield?
Ans. Mr. Chips
taught Greek and Latin languages at Brookfield. However, he thought of them as dead languages. He was not a very profound classical scholar; indeed,
he taught such classical languages.
CHAPTER NO. 4
Q.1 Where did
Mr. Chips go in the summer of 1896?
Q.2 Where did
Mr. Chips meet his future wife?
Ans. Mr. Chips went
to the Lake District with his colleague, Mr. Rowden, during the summer vacation of 1896. Mr. Chips met his
future wife Katherine Bridges on Great Gable. She was a modern woman
and read Bernard Shaw and Ibsen. They had the strangest and most
reprehensible opinions.
Q.3 What did
happen when Mr. Chips rush to help Katherine?
Q.4 What is
the most interesting incident of the novel?
Q.5 How did
Mr. Chips’ ankle get sprained?
Ans. Mr. Chips rushed
to help Katherine when he saw her waving excited standing on a
dangerous looking ledge. In doing so he slipped and thus got his ankle
sprained. Thus he found himself rescued instead of the rescuer. It is the most interesting
incident of the novel.
Q.6 Was
Katherine really in danger on the ledge?
Ans. Katherine
was not in danger at all. She was just waving to her friend farther
down the mountain. She was an expert mountaineer.
Q.7. What did
Mr. Chips call the modern woman of nineties?
Ans. Mr. Chips
thought that the modern women were like monstrous creature that filled him with
horror. He was against all the newness and freedom of the nineties.
Q.8 What did
Mr. Chips not hold of modernity?
Ans.
Mr. Chips was a conventional persons and the world, viewed form the haven of
Brookfield, and seemed to him full of distasteful innovations. He did not hold
all this modern newness and freedom.
Q.9 What were
Katherine’s as compared to Mr. Chips’s political ideas?
Q.10 Why did
Mr. Chips not contradict her ideas? (Ch#6)
Ans.
Katherine was radical in her political ideas whereas Mr. Chips had
conservative ideas. Mr. Chips did not contradict her political ideas
and views. He did not want to hurt her feelings. Secondly he was not very
articulate like Katherine. Her young
idealism worked upon his maturity to produce an amalgam very gentle and wise
Q.11 Why did
Katherine like Mr. Chips?
Q.12 What did
Katherine think about the middle-aged men?
Ans. Katherine
liked and loved Mr. Chips for his quiet and polite nature,
thorough honesty and brown eyes. She first thought that the middle-aged men who
read “Times” and dislike modernity would be terrible bore. Later she was happy
when she came to know about his teaching profession.
Q.13 Give the
physical description of Katherine Bridges.
Ans. She was
twenty-fife years old, young enough to be Chips’s daughter. She had blue,
flashing eyes and freckled cheeks and smooth straw-coloured hair.
Q.14
Wha were views of Katherine’s
Ans.
Katherine bridges had radical ideas regarding women’s emancipation. She thought
that women ought to have a right to vote and get admitted to universities. She
read and admired Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and William Morris.
Q.14
Why didn’t Chips like to be rescued by a woman?
Ans.
Chips found himself the rescued instead of the
rescuer; and neither role was one for which he had much relish. He did not care
for women, he never felt at home or at ease with them. He called them monstrous
creature.
Q.15
What made Chips wonder what the world was coming to?
Ans.
Katherine considered herself responsible for
Chips’ accident. She used to bicycle along the side of the lake to the
farm-house in which the quiet, middle-aged, serious looking man lay resting. He
wondered vaguely what the world was coming to. Chips did not hold with all this
modern newness and freedom.
CHAPTER NO. 5
Q.1 What was
Mr. Chips dreaming through the hours at Mrs. Wickett?
Q.2 Why did
Mr. Chips look down at his feet?
Ans. While dreaming
through the hours at Mrs. Wickett’s house, he looked down at his feet and
wondered which one of the two was responsible for his meeting with Katherine.
He had only two years of his married life with Katherine.
Q.3 Why was
Katherine first afraid of?
Ans. Katherine was
afraid because she thought him to be a lawyer, or a stockbroker or a
dentist or a man with a big cotton business in Manchester, when she met him
first time. Later she was happy when she came to know about his teaching profession.
Q.4 What did
think about teaching career?
Ans. Katherine
thought that teaching career was different and important. It was teacher who
influenced the lives of young children who were going to grow and matter to the
world. She was happy to know about his teaching career.
Q.5 Why did
Mr. Chips depreciate/belittle himself?
Ans. Mr. Chips
told Katherine about his mediocre degrees, his occasional
difficulties in disciple, his ineligibility to marry a young girls and his
inefficiency to get a promotion. Though he was very assiduous in his
profession.
Q.6 What did
Katherine say to Mr. Chips before the wedding night?
Ans. She asked
Mr. Chips with mock gravity whether she would call him sir or Mr.
Chips. In the end she said, “Good-bye Mr.Chips.” Katherine was
married from the house of her Aunt in Ealing.
CHAPTER NO. 6
Q.1 How did
Katherine conquer Brookfield?
Ans. Katherine
conquered Brookfield as she had conquered Mr. Chips with her charming and
pleasing personality, mild nature and bold revolutionary ideas. She brought
great changes with her ideas in his life.
Q.2 How was
Mr. Chips’ marriage?
Q.3 How did
Katherine influence Mr. Chips’ ideas?
Ans.
Mr. Chips’ marriage was a triumphant success for him because it brought a
series of happiness in his life. Katherine made him completely new man. She
brought great changes with her ideas in his life. She broadened his views and
opinions.
Q.4 How did
Katherine influence Mr. Chips’ life after marriage?
Q.5 What was
the effect of marriage on Mr. Chips’ humour?
Ans.
She brought great changes in Mr. Chips’ life. She made him a new man. His eyes
gained sparkle, his discipline improved and his humour became rich and mature. Her young idealism worked upon his maturity
to produce an amalgam very gentle and wise. It made him more popular with
his students.
Q.6 What kind
of fellow was Chips before marriage?
Ans. Chips had been
a dry and rather neutral sort of person before marriage. He was respected but
was not a popular teacher till then. After marriage she brought great changes
with her ideas in his life. She broadened his views and opinions.
Q.7 What is
the ultimate pitfall of teaching?
Ans. A teacher ultimately begins to sink into the
creeping dry-rot of pedagogy (teaching). Giving the same lessons year after
year develop a routine for him in which the other affairs of his life adjust
themselves with less ease. Brookfield was all in all in his life.
Q.8 Why did
the school boys start loving Mr. Chips after marriage?
Ans. After his
marriage, Mr. Chips became very kind and polite person. Now he started
understand students’ problems, enjoying their company and making little jokes
with them. It made him more popular with his students.
Q.9 What
happened when Katherine suggested a match to play?
Ans. When she
suggested a match between Brookfield and Mission, everybody was surprised and
upset. The whole staff and the school opposed her suggestion. Even Chips was
not ready to support it at first. But later she convinced him, and Chips
convinced others.
Q.10 How did
Katherine persuade Chips for soccer match?
Ans. Katherine
persuaded Chips for the soccer match by telling him that England was not always
going to be divided into “officers” and “other ranks” she said that the Polar
boys were equally important to Brookfield.
Q.11. What was
Lex Canulea?
Ans.
Lex Canulea was Roman law that
permitted patricians to marry plebeians. And Chips used to add: “so that you
see, if Miss Plebs wanted Mr. Patrician to marry her and he said he couldn’t,
she probably replied’ Oh, yes you can, you liar!”
Q.12 What were
Katherine’s political ideas as compared to Mr. Chips’s?
Q.13 Why did
Mr. Chips not contradict her ideas? (Ch#5)
Q.14 How did
Katherine’s political ideas influence Chips?
Ans.
Katherine was radical in her political ideas whereas Mr. Chips had
conservative ideas. Mr. Chips did not contradict her political ideas
and views. He did not want to hurt her feelings. Secondly he was not very
articulate like Katherine. Her young
idealism worked upon his maturity to produce an amalgam very gentle and wise.
Q.15 Who was
old Gribble?
Ans.
Old Gribble was a school butler who remembered Katherine even long after her
tragic death. After his retirement there was left no one who could talk to
Chips about his wife.
Q.15 Who came
to see Chips when during the War, a military camp was stationed near
Brookfield?
Ans. A solider from
the military camp came to see Chips. He
said that he had been one of the team boys from Mission School played Soccer in
Brookfield. Mr. Chips served him with tea and chatted with him. They also
talked about Katherine.
CHAPTER NO.7
Q.1 What did
Mr. Chips see in his memories?
Ans. Mr. Chips saw
Katherine scampering along the stone corridor, laughing beside him at some
mistakes in an essay he was marking. He also imagined her taking part in the
school concert. She was a good player and a fine musician.
Q.2 How did
Katherine Urge/Advice Mr. Chips to forgive the student?
Q.3 how did
Katherine persuade Chips not to punish a boy?
Ans. She advised
Chips not to punish the boy. She asked him to give him a chance. She asked him
to guide the boys. She said that he should warn them not to repeat the mistake.
She asked him to be strict in serious matters when he wanted to be forgiving.
Q.3 Did
Katherine always plead for leniency?
Ans. No, she did
not always plead for leniency. Sometimes she would ask him to punish the proud
and un-civilized boys when he wanted to be forgiving. She asked him to be
strict in serious matters when he wanted to be forgiving.
Q.4 What did
Dunster put in the organ loft?
Q.5 Who was
Ogilvie?
Ans. Dunster, one
of the naughty students, put a rat in the organ-loft while old Ogilvie who was
an old choir-master at Brookfield, was taking choir-practice.
Q.6 Why could
Mr. Chips not write down his memories/book?
Ans. Mr. Chips
could not write down his memories/book because writing always tired him both
mentally and physically. Secondly, memories lost much of their flavour of
excitement when they were written down.
Q.7 What does
the phrase “Memories of Rod and Lines” mean?
Ans. Chips punished
his students either with a road or by giving them a line to write it for 100
times. Chips recalled such memories so often. He called them the “Memories of Rod and Lines”. He
mentioned it in his farewell speech.
Q.8
What clung to Chips as their last home?
Ans.
All those numerous incidents which were once very
urgent and funny in past. Those emotional memories which were nearly going to
vanish before their dying clung to Chips as their last home. He must be kind to
them, must treasure them in his mind before their long sleep.
CHAPTER NO. 8
Q.1 How and
when did Katherine die?
Q.2 Describe
Katherine’s tragic death.
Ans. Katherine and
her new-born child died on 1st April, 1898. It was a deep shock for Chips.
on the death of his wife he found himself to be in the horrifying nightmare. He
wished to die like her. He found himself to be in a trance.
Q.2 What did
Young Faulkner request Chips?
Q.3 Who met
Chips on the day of Katherine’s death?
Ans. Faulkner was a
student of Chips. He asked Mr. Chips if he might have that after noon off and
miss chapel, too. He further sought his permission to go to the station to see
his people. He was also rebuked by Chips at the end of meeting.
Q.4 What did
Mr. Chips receive on the 1st April 1898?
Q.5 What was
the April foolery Chips faced?
Q.6 What is
the irony of fate in the death of Katherine?
Ans.
On 1st April 1898, Mr. Chips received some letter. He opened them
one by one. Each letter contained a blank sheet of paper. He thought it was
strange. Days afterward, he realized that it was a piece of April foolery. This
is the irony of fate.
Q.7 What was
the effect of Katherine’s death on Mr. Chips?
Q.8 How did
bereavement and grief affect Mr. Chips?
Ans. He was grieved
much at this loss. He found himself to be in a horrifying nightmare. People
noticed that he had grown old. He wished to die like her. He found himself to
be in a trance. He was totally preoccupied. He left the spacious apartment and
shifted to his original bachelor’s quarter.
Q.9 Why did he
not want to get condolences?
Ans.
He did not want to get condolences. He did not want to receive kind words from
others because he wanted to get used to things. In this way he tried to
overcome his grief. On that day even, he took his class as ususal
CHAPTER NO. 9
Q.1 Why did
Mr. Chips want to give up his house mastership?
Ans.
Just as marriage added something to his life, so did grief. Chips began to
remain very sad after the death of his wife. Nothing could lessen his grief. He
lost his interest in everything. Therefore, he wanted to give up his house
mastership. He changed his residence.
Q.2 How did Katherine’s
death influence his life?
Q.3 Why did
the boys call him “Old”?
Ans.
Just as marriage added something to his life, so did grief. After the death of
Katherine Mr. Chips became suddenly a kind of man whom the boys classed as
“old”. Nothing could lessen his grief.
He lost his interest in everything.
Q.4 Who was
Naylor and why did Mr. Chips not forget him?
Ans.
Naylor was one the students who called Chips “Old Chap” at 50. Now, at Mrs.
Wickett, Chips was 80 years old and Nylor was a lawyer and was over 50. Mr.
Chips thought that he should ask him if a man at fifty becomes old.
Q.5 What sort
of gown did Chips wear after the death of Katherine.
Q.6 What
eccentricities did Chips acquire in his old age?
Ans.
His gown was old and worn out and it had become almost too tattered to hold
together. He wore classes slipping down the nose. His eyebrows were lifted, one
a little higher than the other. He cast a verifying glance at the boy that was
half pensive and half inspecting, and ticked his name off on the list. He had
got those gentle peculiarities that so often attack schoolmaster and parsons.
Q.7 What was a
popular subject of mimicry in the school?
Ans.
Chips wore classes slipping down the nose. His eyebrows were lifted, one a
little higher than the other. He cast a verifying glance at the boy that was
half pensive and half inspecting. This was the verifying glance of Chips. It
was a popular subject of mimicry in the school.
Q.8 What did
Mr. Chips think about the Boers?
Ans. Boers were the
Dutch people who settled in South Africa in 17th century. Many
colonial powers attached the Boers to have the riches. The Boers resisted
strongly. The resulting conflicts were known as Boers Wars, fought from 1880 to
1881 and 1899 to 1902.
Q.9. How did
Chips take attendance and what was special about it?
Q.10 What was
the popular subject of mimicry in the school?
Ans. While taking
attendance, Chips held the school list. Each boy when passed before him spoke
his name. Chips cast a verifying glance at him and tick his name off on the
list. It was a popular subject of mimicry in the school.
Q.11 Who was
Mr. Lloyd George and what did Mr. Chips say to him?
Ans. Mr. Lloyd
George was the prime minister of England and Chips said to him, “Mr. Lloyd
George, am nearly old enough to remember you as young man and I confessed that
you have improved a great deal. L.G. laughed heartily and talked to Chips
freely.
CHAPTER NO. 10
Q.1 When did
Mr. Meldrum join the school?
Q.2 Who was
Mr. Meldrum and when did he die?
Ans. After the
death of Mr. Wetherby, Mr. Meldrum became the Head of the school in 1870. He
served the school thirty years and died in 1900. Chips became the Acting Head
of the School.
Q.3 Who was
Mr. Ralston?
Ans. Mr. Ralston, a
young man of 37, became the head of school after the death of Mr. Meldrum. He
was a strict person in himself. He always had a stern look on his face. He
could make the big hall hush up by just lifting his eyebrows. He had his
glittering academic career with First and Blues.
Q.4 What duty was assigned to the boys of Brookfield
when the railway men were on strike?
Ans. They were
assigned the duty of patrolling the railway line when the railway men were on
strike. Stones were being thrown at trains. They boys were asked to guard the
railway line. The boys enjoyed the situation at lot.
Q.5 who was
Cricklade and what did he ask Chips?
Ans. Cricklade was
one of the students of Brookfield who were guarding the railway line and asked
Chips what they would do if a striker met them.
He also saw Chips talking to Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones was one of the
strikers.
Q.6 Who was
Mr. Jones?
Q.7 What story
went round the city about Mr.Chips and Mr.Jones?
Ans. Mr. Jones was
a striker. He was a servant in the railway department. He had the charge of the
signal-box. Chips talked to him and the story went round the city about Mr.
Jones and Mr.Chips. Chips did not bother about it.
Q.8 What did
Chips remember about the Diamond Jubilee of England?
Ans. On the day of
Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1897), there was holiday at Brookfield. He
had taken Kathie to London to see the procession. There, they saw Queen
Victoria sitting in the carriage. She looked like a crumbling wooden doll.
Q.9 What do
you know about Edward VII rule?
Ans. The king
Edward VII ruled England for ten years (1901-1910). It was a period of unrest.
There were strikes, unemployed and marchers, champagne suppers, Chines labour,
tariff reforms, lock-outs and many other problems during this period.
Q.10 Who was
Grayson and why he was upset?
Ans. It was he
whose father was sailing on Titanic. He was careless and preoccupied after
hearing the news about the sinking of Titanic. He was excused from his lesson.
Later, the news came that Grayson’s father had been among those who were
rescued.
Q.11 Describe
the political circumstances in the early 20th century.
Ans. It was a
period of political unrest. There were strikes, unemployed and marchers,
champagne suppers, Chines labour, tariff reforms, lock-outs and many other
problems during this period.
CHAPTER
NO. 11
Q.1
Why did Chips dislike Mr. Ralston?
Q.2
What do you know about Ralston?
Ans.
Ralston was a modern man. He wanted to end dead
languages from Brookfiled. He treated teachers like slaves. Chips thought that
Ralston was ending good old tradition of Brookfield. He alleged Chips that his
habits are slack & slovenly. Therefore, he did not like Ralston.
Q.3
Why did Ralston dislike Chips?
Ans.
Chips taught old languages. His methods of
teaching were old. On the other hand, Ralston was modern man. He wanted to end
dead languages from Brookfield. He called Chips’ methods of teaching were slack,
and his personal habits were slovenly. Thus he disliked Chips.
Q.4
How did Ralston charge sheet/ against Chips?
Q.5
What allegations did Ralston put on Chips?
Ans.
According to Mr. Ralston, Chips’s methods of
teaching were slack and old fashioned and his personal habit were slovenly. He
further blamed that Chips often ignored his instructions. Mr. Ralston offered him to resign. Chips refused to resign.
Q.6
What was Row/quarrel between Chips and Ralston?
Ans.
Owing to Chips’ old methods of teaching Mr.
Ralston disliked him. In 1908 when Chips reached at the age of 60, he gave him
an ultimatum that he should think about his retirement. Chips replied that he
would not retire and Ralston might do what he liked.
Q.7
How did Ralston try to persuade Chips to change his pronunciation?
Q.8
How did Chips react when Ralston talked about his pronunciation?
Ans.
Chips disliked new pronunciation. It was nonsense
to make boys say ‘Kikero’ instead of ‘Cicero’ and instead of ‘vicissim’, one
should make them say-- ‘We kiss ‘im’!. He told Ralston that Mr. Wetherby
approved his pronunciation when he joined Brookfield.
Q.9
How did the news of quarrel spread among the boys?
Q.10
How did the parents and teachers react to this row?
Ans.
It so happened that a little boy who wanted to see
Ralston had listened to the whole story of their quarrel outside of his study.
Later, he told his class-fellows and parents. Soon it was known that Ralston
had insulted Chips. Everybody supported Chips. The teachers did not like
Ralston’s slave driving.
Q.11
Who John River?
Q.12
What kind of student was John River, according to Chips?
Ans.
Sir John Rivers was the chairman of the board of
governors. Earlier he had been the student to Chips. According to Chips he was
not a very brilliant student in the class. He visit the school personally and
supported Chips.
Q.13
What did Sir John Rivers tell Chips about Ralston?
Ans.
sir John Rivers told Chips that the Governors did
not like Ralston because he was very clever, rather too clever to believe. They
did not want Chips to resign. He further encouraged Chips by saying that he
could stay there till he was hundred years old.
Q.14
What did Ralston do to raise the status of School?
Ans.
Ralston brought many changes to raise the status
of Brookfield. He met wealthy people in London and convinced them to send their
boys to Brookfield. For the first time in history, there was a long list of
boys waiting for admissions to Brookfield.
CHAPTER
NO. 12
Q.1
What did Ralston do after his quarrel?
Ans.
Ralston left Brookfield in 1911. He left it to
better himself because he was offered the headship of some greater public
school. Chips continued his same methods of teaching in the school.
Q.2
Who succeeded Mr. Ralston?
Q.3
What type of person Mr. Chatteris?
Ans.
After Ralston’s resignation, Mr. Chatteris became
the head of Brookfield. He was a young man of 34 and a Natural Sciences Tripos.
He was brilliant and an efficient man. He liked modernity. He had friendly,
affable and pleasing personality. Mr. Chips liked him.
Q.3
What did happen to Chips in 1913?
Q.4
What was the age of Chips when he retired?
Ans.
In 1913, Chips had bronchitis and was off duty for
nearly the whole of the winter term. This made him to resign at the age of 65.
At the final end-of-term dinner, in July in 1913, he received his farewell
party. He also made a farewell speech. He spent 42 years in Brookfield.
Q.5
Write a note on Mr. Chips’ farewell speech?
Ans.
Chips made a farewell speech in July, 1913.
It was not a very long speech but it had many jokes and Latin quotations in it.
It was made twice as long by the laughter that impeded its progress. It was
full of allusions from the time Chips remained at Brookfield.
Q.6
What events did he mention in his farewell speech?
Ans.
Chips made
speech at the final end-of-term dinner, in July in 1913. He mentioned the first
bicycle, the lamp-boy, the seven weeks-frost, the day when the Big Hall of the
school was turned into hospital ward due to German measles in 1880, and the excitement
of great bonfire.
Q.7
What happened in the event of Bonfire?
Ans.
They burnt a bonfire on Mafeking night. It was lit
near the pavilion. The event was celebrated wildly. The fire got wild and they
had to send for the fire-brigade to put it out. The firemen were having their own celebrations.
Q.8
Who was Herr Staefel?
Ans.
Herr Staefel was a German teacher. He was 30 years
junior to Chips. When Chips went for a cure to Wiesbaden in Germany, he stayed
with him at his house. He wall killed on the Western Front in Germany.
Q.9
What did Chips say about the captain of the School?
Ans.
Chips said that the Captain had exaggerated his
services. He said that he belonged to an exaggeration family. He said that once
he had punished his father for having exaggerated one mark into seven.
Q.10
What were the activities of Chips after his retirement?
Ans.
He invited new boys and masters to tea, watched
matches, dined with the `head and the master, took on the preparation of the
new edition of Brookfieldian Directory, wrote articles and read newspaper and
detective novels.
CHAPTER
NO. 13
Q.1
Who was Forrester?
Ans.
Forrester was a small boy at Brookfield. He was
only four feet high above his muddy football shoes. He talked to Chips about
war. As a joke Chips asked him if he was going to join the army. He was killed
in 1918.
Q.2
What contribution Brookfield rendered during the war?
Ans.
Brookfield rendered great service during the war.
Its playing-fields were used for sports and army training. Many of its masters
and students joined the army. They even sacrificed their lives for the glory of
England.
Q.3
Who was Blades?
Ans.
Blades was the Head of School House. He was
eighteen years old. He was getting training for cadetship. Chips expressed his
views in his farewell speech that sacrifice of one generation should so cancel
out those of other.
Q.4
What did Chatteris do in the chapel after evening service?
Ans.
On every Sunday night, after evening service, Chatteris read out the names of old boys
who were killed in the War. He also told their short biographies. It was very
heart-rending sight that tears fell from his eyes.
Q.5
What request did Chatteris make to Chips?
Ans.
Chatteris was suffering from diabetes. He was
thirty-nine and unmarried. He requested Chips to rejoin the School and help him
in holding the things together which were in the danger of flying to bits.
Chips happily accepted the offer.
CHAPTER
NO. 14
Q.1
What did Chips feel when he rejoined Brookfield?
Q.2
What were Chips’s duties when he rejoined Brookfield?
Ans.
Chips felt very fit and happy. The actual work was
not taxing. Just a few forms in Latin and Roman history. For the first time in
his life, he felt himself necessary for Brookfield. He had sublime feelings.
Q.3 What is
rissole? What joke was related to rissole?
Ans. Rissole is a
small fired cake of minced meat, often mixed with breadcrumbs. It was served in
Brookfield on Mondays. Chips called it “abhorrendum”; the “meat to be
abhorred”. It was called Chips’s latest.
Q.4 When and
why Chips become the acting head of Brookfield?
Ans. In 1917, Mr.
Chatteris fell seriously ill and could not manage the affairs of the School
properly. He died at the age of 41. Mr. Chips became the acting and worked till
1918. He handled problems and dealt with complaints and requests. He became
very kind, gentle and confident.
Q.5 What did
Chips feel on the comments on the issue of reading the name of Max Staefel?
Ans. Max Staefel
was killed while on Western Front while visiting home in Germany. Chips read
his name because he had worked as a teacher at Brookfield. Later people
disliked it. Chips was displeased by the comments. Chips had the old ideas of
dignity and generosity that were becoming rare in the frantic world.
Q.6 Why was
Chips taking his classes even during the War?
Ans. Chips was
dutiful teacher. He did not leave taking classes even during the war. Rather
when many teachers left the school and went to fight for England, Chips had to
work a lot. He had to teach their classes to keep up the courage of the boys.
CHAPTER
NO. 15
Q.1 Who was
Maynard?
Ans. Maynard was
chubby, dauntless, clever and an impudent boy at Brookfield. It was he who
offered himself to construe voluntarily when the bombs were falling outside the
class. Chip did not leave taking classes even during the War. He kept the boys’
morale high.
Q.2 How did
Chips keep up the spirits of the boys during the air-raid?
Ans. During the
shelling the whole building shook as if it was being lifted off its foundation.
Chips remained calm during the shelling. He even found some phrases to show the
way the Germans fought. This was really funny and the students began laughing.
He was a legend.
Q.2
Who was stink merchant? Who was Burrow?
Ans.
Burrow was a pale, lean and medically unfit
science master and was nicknamed the Stink Merchant. Chips used this word for
the scientist who were inventing dangerous weapons in their laboratories.
Symbolically, it was a reference to the countries involved in the dangerous
World War I.
Q.3
What happened on 11 November, 1918?
Ans.
World War I ended on 11 November, 1918. A whole
holiday was declared. The kitchen staff was asked to provide a large meal.
There was much cheering and singing and a bread fight. Chips also put his
resignation finally.
CHAPTER NO. 16
Q.1 How did
Chips feel in different seasons after his retirement?
Ans. He had to take
care of himself when cold east wind blew. Autumn and winter were not really bad
for him he spent winter sitting before fire and reading detective books. But it
was summer the he liked the most.
Q.2 Who was
Gregson? What joke was played on him?
Ans. Gregson was a tall boy
with spectacles, an old student of Chips. Chips told him that he was always
late in everything. Chips said, perhaps, he would be late in growing old like
him. Chips often mentioned about his dilatoriness to Mrs. Wickett.
Q.3 What
changes had taken place in Brookfield during the post-war decade?
Ans. Many muddled changes
occurred in the post-war decade. It was a period of political unrest and
turmoil. The turbulent event of Ruhr, Chanak and Corfu took place during this
period.
Q.4 When did
the General Strike take place?
Ans. It took place
in 1926. England had to suffer a heavy loss due to this strike. Chips said that
England had burned the fire in her own grate again.
Q.5 How did
Chips earn the reputation of being a great jester?
Ans. Wherever Chips
went and whatever he said, there was laughter. He rose to speak, people got
ready for a joke. They laughed sometimes before he could come to the point. He
had won the repute of being a great jester. People loved to listen to him.
Q.6 When did
Chips make his will? What did he make it?
Ans. In 1930, Chips made his will. Except for his
legacies to the Mission and to Mrs. Wickett, he left all he had to found an
open entrance scholarship to the School.
Q.7 Who was
Henderson? What joke did Chips share with him?
Ans. Chips said
that when he was young; there had been one who promised nine pence for four
pence through nobody ever got it. But the present rulers seemed to give four
pence for nine pence. Everybody laughed.
Q.8 What did
Chips say about Wurlitzer?
Ans. the boy said that it was musical instrument.
But he said that he thought it was some kind of sausage. There was a burst of loud
laughter.
Q.9 Why did
boys ask Chips different questions?
Ans. Boys asked him
questions, as if he were some kind of prophet and encyclopedia combined.
Moreover, they expected to get their answer dished up as a joke. Boys loved to
listen to him.
CHAPTER NO. 17
Q.1 What had
Mr. Chips not done in his life?
Ans. Chips had
never travelled by air as well as he had never been to a talky show in his
life.
Q.2. How did
Chips treat his last visitor, Linford?
Ans. Chips treated him
very nicely and courteously, for Chips had sensed that Linford had been
befooled by the senior students. Before visiting her relatives Mrs. Wickett had
left tea-things ready on the table with bread and butter.
Q.3 What did
Chips tell Linford about Brookfield?
Q.4 What did
Chips feel when Linford said: “Good bye, Mr.Chips”?
Ans. Mr. Chips told Linford that Brookfield would
not be as horrible a place as he was imagining. On top of it, he also told him
about his own arrival at Brookfield sixty three years ago. Chips felt grieved
and fatigued when Linford said to him “Good bye, Mr. Chips”.
Q.5 Who was
Linford?
Ans. Linford, a
small boy, wearing a Brookfield cap, came to see Chips. He was the last Chips’
visitor. He lived in Shropshire. He was the first of his family at
Brookfield. Chips told him that he was
growing up into a very difficult world. After his departure Chips did not feel
well.
CHAPTER NO. 18
Q.1 Who was
Mr. Cartwright?
Ans. Cartwrite
was
the headmaster of Brookfield. Chips thought of him as “new” even though he had
been at Brookfield. Since 1919.
Q.2 What did
Chips say at the comment of Mr. Cartwright?
Ans. Chips opened
his eyes as wide as he could and said with quavering merriment that he had
thousands of boys as his own children.
Q.3 Describe
the death scene of Chips? When did Chips die?
Ans. Before dying, Chips heard
the chorus singing in final harmony. He heard the grand sweet music he had ever
heard. It was the music of names of his students. He died dreaming of thousands
of his students. Chips died in 1933
at the age of 83.
Q.8 What is
the significance of the title “Good bye, Mr. Chips”?
Ans. Before leaving Chips’s house, Linford said, “Good
bye, Mr. Chips”. The words
reminded Chips that on the eve of his wedding day Katherine had used the same
phrase mocking him gently for his seriousness.
Q.9 What was
the last joke played on Chips by the students?
Ans. Linford came
to see Chips because some cheekier boys fooled him and told that Chips wanted
to see him, but Chips welcomed him and treated him gently. It was the last joke
played on Chips by the students.
Q.10 Write a
note on Brookfield.
Ans. Brookfield was
established as a grammar school in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It was a boarding school. It faced many
ups and downs in its reputation. Many notable families supported it. It was a
good school of second rank. Mr. Chips joined it in 1870.
******
Explanatory
Notes
(Good bye Mr.
Chips by James Hilton)
1. By Jove
An expression of surprise, e.g. it was good fight,
by Jove! It also means an approval or used for emphasis, e.g. by Jove, it’s
been warm all. In 18th & 19th century in England it
was considered a great offense to say “By God”. Instead men would say “By
Jove”. Jove is an alternative name of the Roman God Jupiter.
2.
Great Exhibition
It was an industrial exhibition organized by Queen
Victoria’s husband, prince Albert in 1851. It attracted six million visitors
all over the world and it became a showcase for British achievement in
industry.
3.
Franco Prussian War
It was a war fought between France and Germany in
1870-71
4.
Ablative Absolute
An absolute construction in Latin with a Noun and
Participle or Adjective in the ablative case. It usually consists of Noun and
an Adjective. The adjective is often a participle (present or past participle
like running train done work etc.)
5.
Mid—Victorian Days
The mid age of the 19th century when
Queen Victoria was the ruler of England.
6. Encore
An encore is an additional performance to the end
of a concert, it has been taken from the French encore, which means “again”, “once more”.
7. Acropolis
A citadel or an elevated part of a Greek city
especially of Athens. The Greek built their cities near the mountains or around
the mountains. Acropolis is known under the name of “The Acropolis of Athens”. It was 500 feet high and was built at the
top of a mountain. It was dedicated to “Athena”
which as a goddess of wisdom.
8. Forum
It is a Latin word which means an open place for
shop sale. It was used to gather for shop and sale, religious festivals,
elections etc.
9. Freemasonry
System and instruction of the freemasons, secret
understanding between like characters, instinctive sympathy.
10.
Virgil
A great Roman poet.
11.
Fixture Cards
It is a kind of card on which time and place of
meeting is mention as scheduled by a hunt. Normally , card is sent to each
member of the hunt once in a month.
12.
D.S.O
Distinguish Service Order
13.
Xenophon
He was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and
the student of Socrates.
14.
Guineas
A sum of money equal to 21 shillings
15.
Mnemonics
A system of improving memory.
16.
Volte-face
Turning round a complete change of front in
arguments and politics.
17.
Passchendaele
Battle front of France
18.
Cello
A four stringed brass instrument like a large
violin. It is held between player’s knees.
19.
Mozart
An
Australian composer
20.
Trio
A
composition for three voices instruments
21.
Livy
His
full name was “Titus Livius” he was Roman Historian.
22.
Cromwell
He
was the first commander-in-chief who ruled over England. He defeated the king
in battle of Naseby in 1645.
23.
Waterloo
This
battle was fought on June 18, 1815. Waterloo is the same place where now
Belgium is situated.
24.
Organ –loft
A
gallery in church or concert room for an organ.
25.
I daresay (mera tw yahi khiyal hy)
I
think it likely
Characters & Years in “Good-Bye Mr.
Chips”
1.
Wetherby Head master at the time when Mr.
Chips joined Brookfield.
2.
Mrs. Wickett Landlady of Chips. Had been in charge of
linen room at Brookfield.
3.
Mr. Ralston A
young head master of 37 in Brookfield after Meldrum’s death.
4.
Rushton A
funny incidence related to Rushton regarding a sack of
potatoes,
went to Borneo.
5.
Young Faulkner A boy
who came to have the afternoon off and miss chapel
on
the day why Katherine and her baby died in 1898
6.
Mr. Lloyed George The prime minister of England, visited
Brookfiled
7.
Sir John Rivers Chairman
of the BOG, once he was student of Chips
8.
Nylor A boy who first called Chips as “Old” when he Chips was at
fifty. When
Chips was at 80 and Nylor was at 50, chips
wished him to call
Old. He became lawyer.
9.
Young Gricklade A boy who asked
Chips what he would do if they met a
railway
striker
10.
Forrester The
smallest boy at Brookfield. Only 4 feet high.
11.
Mr. Jones A Railway striker. He had been in
charge of signal box.
12.
Mrs. Brool A lady who served in Brookfield
until his uncle left a lot of
money in
Australia. Whose picture was in school tuck shop.
13.
Greyson A boy whose father was sailing in
Titanic Ship
14.
Henderson A
student at Brookfield.
15.
Blades School Head of Houses, became
the first Brookfield Cadet.
16.
Gregson A
tall boy with spectacles, always late.
17.
Roberston A nervous student in chips’ class
during an air-raid.
18.
Mr. Burrow A science teacher , physically misfit
Chips named him as
stink
merchant.
19.
A Lamp Boy A
member of domestic staff, duty to trim and light lamps
20.
Max Steafel A German master in Brookfield, killed
a boarder in 1918.
21.
Maynord A chubby and impudent boy who
started reading in chips
class during
an air-raid.
22.
Henderson A boy who asked Chips questions as if
he were some kind of
prophet and
encyclopedia
23.
Linford A boy who was the last visitor
of Chips in the novel
24.
Mr. Cartwrite 4th Head master in Brookfield,
during the year when Chips
died in
1933.
Important
Years in the Novel
1840 Mr.
Wetherby Joined Brookfield
1848 Date of Birth Mr. Chips, died in 1933
1860’s Chips studied at Cambridge University
1869 Chips was teaching at Millbury School
1870 Chips joined Brookfiled after Mulberry
Punished Colley senior
Franco- Prussian war
Wetherby died
Mr. Meldrum became HM
1880 Spread German Measles in Brookfield
1896 Chips went to Lake District & his
future wife, Katherine
1898 Katherine & her bay died
1900 HM Meldrum died and Mr. Ralston of 37 became HM
1908 Row between Chips and Ralston. Chips
turned 60
1911 HM Ralston left Brookfield
Mr. Chatteris became new HM of Brookfiled.
1913 Chips retired first time. Made his
farewell speech. Went
Wiesbaden
1914 Chips attuned the end of term dinner
1915 Armies drenched in deadlock from the
sea to Switzerland
1916 Somme battle was fought
HM Chatteris got
diabetic, requested Chips to rejoin
Brookfield.
1917 HM Chatteris died.
1917-18 Chips became acting Head Master second time
1918 Max Steafel was killed in Germany
1918 Chips resigned 2nd time
1919 Mr.
Cartwright joined became New HM of Brookfield.
1926 General Strike in London
1930 Chips wrote his will
1933 Chips died at the age of 83, during HM
in Brookfield.
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