12th Class Mr Chips Most Important Questions 2025

 

Good Bye Mr. Chips (By James Hilton)

SHORT QUESTIONS

LESSON NO: 1

Q1: When did Mr. Chips join Brookfield?

Ans: Mr. Chips joined Brookfield in 1870.

Q2: Who was the head master of the school when Mr. Chips joined it?

Ans: Wetherby was the head master of the school when Mr. Chips joined it.

Q3: What advice did Mr. Wetherby give to Mr. Chips?

Ans: Mr. Wetherby advised Mr. Chips to take firm attitude from the beginning in the class and not to let anyone play tricks with him.

Q4: Why did he leave Melbury School?

Ans: Mr. Chips was ragged there by the students. He could not maintain discipline in his class. So he had to leave that school.

Q5: What happened when Mr. Chips took his first class at Brookfield?

Ans: When Mr. Chips entered the class he found five (500) wanton boys ready to rag him. There was complete silence in the class. Then someone dropped the lid of the desk. Fortunately he saw the boy who had made this mischief. He gave him punishment of writing hundred lines. Then no boy dared tease him.

Q6: Who was Colley? What interesting joke was attached to him?

Ans: Colley was the boy who dropped desk lid during the first class of Mr. Chips. After many years his son and then his grandson became Mr. Chips' students. Mr. Chips used to ridicule his grandson by saying that both his father and grandfather were stupid but he believe that he was "the biggest fool of the lot".

 Q7: Where was Mr. Chips settled after retirements?

Ans: Mr. Chips lived at Mr. Wicket's' after retirements just across the road from the school. He had been there for more than a decade.

Q8: What was the quality of Mr. Chips' voice?

Ans: The voice of Mr. Chips' was jerky and high pitched having sprightliness.

Q9: What was Mr. Chips' routine before going to bed?

Ans: Mr. Chips always wound up the clock after the last bell. He put the wire guard in front of the fire and carried a detective novel to bed. Free

LESSON NO: 2

Q1: When was Brookfield established and when was it reconstructed?

Ans: Brook filed was established in the region of Queen Elizabeth as a grammar school. Its main structure was rebuilt in the region of George.

Q2: What type of school was Brookfield? What type of person did it supply?

Ans: Brookfield was a good school of second rank. It was not as famous as Harrow or Elton. However, it produced many history making men of the age including judges, members of parliament, colonial administrator, peers and bishops and number of merchants and professionals

Q3: What were the qualifications of Mr. Chips?

Ans: Mr. Chips was an ordinary teacher with inadequate qualifications. He was simple graduate from Cambridge. His degree was not good.

Q4: What was Mr. Chips given at the time of requirements?

Ans: Mr. Chips was retired in 1913, at the age of 65. He was presented with cheque, a writing desk and a clock.

Q5: Was Mr. Chips an ambitious person?

Ans: Mr. Chips was ambitious when he was young. His dream was to get a head ship or a senior mastership in a first rank school. But with the passage of time he realized that his qualifications were not good enough to materialize his dream.

LESSON NO: 3

Q1: Give a brief description of Mr. Chips' room at Mrs. Wickett'?

Ans: The room of Mr. Chips at Mrs. Wicketts was small but comfortable and sunny. It was furnished simply. There were a few bookshelves, sporting trophies, a mantel piece crowded with fixture-cards and signed photographs of boys and men, a worn Turkey carpet, easy chairs, some pictures on the wall and a number of classical books and detective novels.

Q2: How does Mr. Chips remember Collingwood?

Ans: Mr. Chips remember Collingwood very well. He once thrashed him for climbing on to the gymnasium roof to get a ball out of the gutter. He had become a major in the army.

Q3: What were his tastes in reading?

Ans: His collection was chiefly classical. There were, however, a few books of history and belles letters' there were also a number of cheap editions of detective novels.

 

 

Q4: Who was Mrs. Wicketts?

Ans: Mrs. Wicketts was a kind lady. Mr. Chips after retirement lives at Mrs. Wicketts as a playing guest. She had been in charge of the linen room at Brookfield.

LESSON NO: 4+5

Q1: Where and when did Mr. Chips met Katherine?

Ans: In the summer of 1896, Mr. Chips went to the district lake to enjoy vacations. One day, climbing on Great Gable, he noticed a girl standing on a dangerous point and waving excitedly. Mr. Chips rushed to save the girl but slipped and wrenched his ankle. The girl was Katherine who was good climber and waving her friend. Katherine, with the help of her friend, took Mr. Chips to his farmhouse at Wasddale where he was staying.

Q2: When were they married?

Ans: Katherine used to visit Chips. Within weeks they were head over heels in love. They married in Landon a week before the beginning of autumn term. At the time of marriage Chips was 48 while Katherine was 25.

Q3: What was Katherine's appearance?

Ans: Katherine was 25, young enough to be Chips' daughter. She had blue flashing eyes, freckled cheeks and smooth colored hair iews of Katherine Com straw colored hair.

 Q4: What were the views of Katherine?

Katherine had radical socialistic views. She liked writers having radical socialistic inclination. She loved reading Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and William Morris. She believed that women ought to be admitted to universities they ought to have a right to vote.

Q5: Describe Mr. Chips' views about women?

Ans: Mr. Chips was a conservative man who lived too much in the past. He did not like modern women who were bold, fashionable and had radical view. He thought nice women were weak, timid and delicate.

Q6: Why did Katherine like Mr. Chips?

Ans: Katherine liked Mr. Chips because he had gentle and quiet manners, because his ideas were noble in-spite of being old and because his eyes were brown and he looked charming when he smiled.

Q7: Which were the professions disliked by Katherine?

Ans: Katherine liked the profession of Chips'. She thanked God that Mr. Chips was a teacher and not a solicitor, a stock broker, a dentist or a business in Manchester.

 

Q8: How did Katherine address Mr. Chips on the night before the wedding?

Ans: Katherine said that it was their last farewell. She felt rather like a new boy beginning his first term with him. Then she said Mr. Chips good bye-----Good bye Mr. Chips.

LESSON NO: 6+7+8

Q1: What were the changes that came in the life of Chips after marriage?

Ans: Mr. Chips had been a dry and neutral sort of person before marriage. Katherine brought a positive change in his life. His eyes gained sparkle and his mind became adventurous. His sense of humour sharpened. He became more popular after marriage.

Q2: What advice did Katherine give to Mr. Chips about the boys?

Ans: Katherine always advised Chips to be kind and lenient to his students. But she also told him to be a strict when it was necessary.

Q3: Did Mr. Chips want to make a collection of his recollection?

Ans: Mr. Chips wanted to make a collection of his recollections. He used to remember thousands of his students and scores of incidence that took place during school years. He tried to make notes in an exercise book. But he soon got tired. Moreover while writing, the memories lost their charm.

Q4: Write down some of memories of Chips?

Ans: His memories were mainly about Katherine and Brookfield school. Chips remembered the matter of Archer's resignation; matter about the rat that Dunster put in the organ loft, lute old ogilvie was taking choir practice.

Q5: What were Chips mental conditions after Katherine's death?

Ans: After Katherine's death he was mentally normal. He did not find any interest in school affairs. Young Faulkner met in the lane. He wished to have the afternoon off. Chips was so disturbed that he said "you can go to Blaze".

LESSON NO: 9+10

Q1: Who were Boers and what his views about them?

Ans: The Boers were the Dutch South African. Mr. Chips was not a pro-Boer but he was also not in the favour of people who condemned them bitterly.

Q2: Why did Mr. Chips think to give up his house mastership?

Ans: After Katherine's death Mr. Chips was so cast down that he thought of giving up his house mastership but the head convinced him not to do that. Later he felt glad as this work kept him pretty engaged.

 

Q3: Who succeeded Mr. Wetherby?

Ans: Mr. Meldrum succeeded Mr. Wetherby in 1870, and acted till his death in 1900.

Q4: How long did Wetherby served Brookfield?

Ans: Mr. Wetherby served Brookfield for three decades. He joined Brookfield in 1840 and served up till 1870.

Q5: Who became the acting head Mr. Meldrum?

Ans: Mr. Chips was appointed as acting head before the appointment of a successor of Mr. Meldrum.

Q6: When and how did Mr. Meldrum die?

Ans: Mr. Meldrum died of Pneumonia in 1900.

Q7: What type of person was Mr. Ralston?

Ans: Mr. Ralston was a young man of 37, "glittering with firsts and blues". He was on efficient person. He had an impressive personality. But at the same time he was very ambitious and ruthless person.

Q8: Why didn't Mr. Chips like Mr. Ralston?

Ans: Mr. Chips didn't like Mr. Ralston because their temperament was quite different. Chips was an old conservative person while Ralston was young, modern and ambitious. Mr. Chips was a soft and mild man while Ralston was harsh and ferocious.