Mr chips

Chapter#1

Question # 1:How does a person spend his time in old age after retirement?

Answer : After retirement when a person becomes old, he has nothing to do. His time seems to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape(valley). 

Question # 2:Why did Chips keep on adjusting his timetable according to the school bells even after the retirement?

Answer : After spending more than forty three(43) years at Brookfield, it was not possible for Chips to break his ties with school. He began to live across the road and Mrs. Wickets. That's why it was possible for Chips to keep on adjusting his timetable according to the school bells.

Question # 3:How did Chips voice sound in old age?

Answer : Although Chips had become old yet he did not loose the zeal and zeast for the life. So his voice remained resonant and lively even in his old age.

Question # 4:What did Chips do before going to the bed?

Answer : Chips was spending a pleasant and placid time at Mrs. Wickets after his retirement. At night before going to the bed, he wound up his clock, put the wire guard in front of the fire, turned out the gas and carried a detective novel  to bed. Rarely did he read more than a page of it before sleep came swiftly and peacefully.

Question # 5:Who was Merivale and how did he encouraged Chips?

Answer : Merivale was the personal doctor of Mr. Chips. He used to visit Chips after every fortnight (15 days) and encouraged Chips in this way, "Mr. Chips you are fitter than I am. You are passsed the age when people get these horrible diseases. You are one of the few lucky ones who are going to die a real natural death".

Question # 6Why did Chips leave Malbury school?

Answer : Chips joined Brookfield as a teacher in 1870. Before coming to Brookfield he got a charm to work at Malbury school for one year. He had to leave that school because he was much ragged. However he liked Brookfield from the very first day.

Q7#:Describe the scene at Brookfield when Chips went there for interview?

Answer : Chips remember the day of his preliminary interview at Brookfield. It was sunny July in 1870 with the air full of flower scents at the plick plock of cricket on the pitch. Brookfield was playing against Barnhaust and one of the Barnhaust boys, a chubby (fat) made a brilliant century.

Q8#:Who was Whetherby and how did he advise Mr. Chips?

Answer : Whetherby was a headmaster at Brookfield in 1870 when Chips went there for interview. Whetherby was a very kind person who advised Mr. Chips in these words, "Mr. Chipping you are a young man, and Brookfield is an old foundation. Youth and age often combine well. Give your enthusiasm to Brookfield and Brookfield will give you something in return".

Question # 9:What kind of boys were sitting in the big hall when Chips went there to take his first class?

Answer : The big hall was overflowing with five hundred lusty barbarians when Chips went there. These boys were ready to pounce upon Chips as their ligitimate prey. They were decent, little beggars individually but as a mob just pitiless and implacable.

Question # 10: How did chips come out of his first tremendous ordeal at Brookfield? Who was Colley?

Answer : The boys had planned to befool Chips on the first day. Colley, one of the little boys present in the big hall dropped a desk-lid  to disturb the class when Chips came in. Fortunately, Chips saw that boy and gave him hard punishment. Chips had won his first round at Brookfield.

Question # 11: What did Chips say to the second Colley?

Answer : Colley was the boy whom Chips punished on the very first day of his career at the Brookfield. Chips said to the second Colley, "Colley, your father was the first boy I ever punished when I came here 25 years ago. He deseverd it then and you deserve it now".

Question # 12: What did Chips say to the third Colley?

Answer : Chips was still in the school when the third Colley got admission there. Third Colley, the son of the Colley who was the son of the first Colley. Chips said to the third Colley, "Colley you are the example of the splendid example of inherited traditions. I remember your grandfather who could never understand verbs. Your grandfather was a stupid fellow. I also remember your father. He used to sit at that far desk. He was not much better either. But I do believe my dear Colley that you are the biggest fool of the lot".

Chapter#2

Question # 13: Where was Brookfield situated?

Answer : Brookfield was situated behind a rampart of ancient elms(trees names).It was a collection of century buildings, constructed upon a rectangle. The school had a plenty of playing fields and there was also a small dependent village behind it. It was established in the reign of Elizabeth as a grammer school.

Question # 14: Why couldn't Brookfield become as famous as Harrow?

Answer : No doubt that Brookfield was an old foundation. It produced a number of history making men of the age but it could not become as famous as Harrow. In fact the school went up and down many a time in the history. It was a good school of second rank.

Question # 15: What type of men did Brookfield produced?What was the Brookfield contribution in the glory of England?

Answer : Brookfield contributed in the glory of England both in war and peace. It produced many history making men of the age. It produced judges, Members of Parliament, colonial administrators, a few peers and bishops. Mostly, however it turned out merchants manufacturers and professional men.

Question # 16: What did snobbish people say about Brookfield?

Answer : Brookfield was a school of second rank, so snobbish people did not develop any soft corner for it. Whenever they were asked about Brookfield, they replied that they had heard its name.

Question # 17: Was Chips an ambitious teacher?What did Chips learn at Brookfield by and by?

Answer : When Chips joined the Brookfield in the 1870, he was in his early 20s and as ambitious as most other young men at such an age. He wanted to become the headmaster of the school or a senior teacher in a really first class school. However with the passage of the time, he learnt the inadequacy of his qualifications.

Question # 18: What status did Chips achieve at Brookfield by and by?

Answer : By and by Chips succeeded in achieving a very high and respectable position at Brookfield. At forty, he was rooted, settled and quite happy. At fifty, he was the doyen of the staff. At sixty, under a new and youthful head he was the guests of honour at old Brookfieldian dinners, the court of appeal in all matters affecting Brookfield history and traditions.

Question # 19: What was presented to Chips on his retirement?

Answer : Chips was a resolute person so he kept on serving Brookfield from 1870 to 1933. When he turned 65, he got retirement from the school. He was given a cheque, a writing desk and a clock on his retirement.

Chapter#3

Question # 20: How did Chips entertained school boys after his retirement?

Answer : Even after his retirement, Chips succeeded in maintaining his strong relations with the school boys. He invited all the new school boys at his room and entertained them with tea and walnut cake. His habit of inviting all the new school boys helped him in controlling the school discipline when he rejoined the school during the First World War.

Question # 21:How did Chips see off the school boys after the tea party?

Answer : Chips meeting with the school boys lasted from 4 to 5 in the afternoon. During that one hour, he entertained the school boys with tea and walnut cake. After that one hour meeting, he said to them, "It has been a delightful meeting you like this but I am sorry you cannot stay". After that he shook hands with them and allowed them to go back to school.

Question # 22: Who was Branksome?

Answer : Branksome was a little school boy. One day Chips invited him to tea party in his room. During the tea party Branksome told Chips that his uncle Collingwood was also a Brookfieldian. He further told Chips that his uncle joined army in his practical life and was killed in Egypt.

Question # 23: Who was Mrs. Wickett?

Answer : Mrs. wickett was the incharge of the Linen room. When she succeeded in saving some money  she bought a house in front of the school and shifted to it. She was also the landlady of Chips and looked after him properly.

Question # 24: What was Mrs. Wickett's complain about the Collingwood?

Answer : Mrs. Wickett told Chips that Collingwood was a bit cheeky (rude) to her. However he did not harm her.

Question # 25: What type of life was Chips spending at Mrs. Wickett?

Answer : Chips was spending a pleasant and placid life at Mrs. Wickett. He had no worries, his pension was adequate and there was a little money saved up beside. So he could afford everything and anything he wanted.

Question # 26: What kind of books were present in Chips room?

Answer : Chips room was full of books of classical literature, that had been his subject at Brookfield. However there were also a few books of history and belles-lettres, He had also some detective novels.

Question # 27: What did Chips think of Latin and Greek?

Answer : Despite his long years of painful teaching, Chips was not a very profound scholar of Latin and Greek. He thought that both Latin and Greek were dead languages and the English gentle men should learn a few quotations of them.

Question # 28: Describe quite enjoyments of Chips at Mrs. Wickett?

Answer : Chips' life at Mrs. Wickett was placid and pleasant. He had no worries. His quite enjoyments were of reading, talking, remembering, drinking tea, receiving collers, busying himself with the correction for the next edition of Brookfieldian directory and writing his occassional letters.

Question # 29: Describe Chips room at Mrs. Wickett?

Answer : It was a small but very comfortable room that Mrs. Wickett let to Chips. His room was furnished simply and with a school masterly taste; a few shelves and sporting trophies;a mantel piece crowded with fixture and some photographs; a worn Turkish carpet; big easy chairs and pictures on wall.

Chapter#4

Question # 30:Why was the spring of 1896 important for Chips?

Answer : The spring of 1896 was very important for Chips for two reasons. First he was appointed headmaster in that year. Second during the summer vaccation of the same year, Katherine Bridges entered the life of Chips and changed it altogether.

Question # 31:Why did Chips go to the Lake District in 1896?

Answer : During summer vacation of 1896, Chips went to the Lake District with his colleague, Rowden to spend sometime in that beautiful valley. Both of them walked and climbed for a week until Rowden had to come back due to some family business. Chips stayed on alone.

Question # 32:How did Katherine came into the life of Chips? Describe the most exciting and interesting incident of the novel?

Answer : After the departure of Rowden, Chips kept on his stay at the Lake District. One day, When he was climbing the Great Gable, he noticed a girl standing on a dangerous looking ledge and waving her hand excitedly. Chips thought that the girl was in danger so he ran towards her to save her life. Unfortunately he slipped himself and wrenched his ankle. That girl came down to help him. She was Katherine and in this way she came into the life of Chips.

Question # 33:What did Chips learn after his accident at Great Gable?

Answer : After the accident on the Great Gable, Chips came to know that Katherine was not in the difficulties at all. She was only signalling to her friend who was standing down the mountain. Chips also came to know that she was an expert mountaineer.

Question # 34:What did Chips think of modern times?

Answer : Chips was an orthodox person who viewed the world from the haven of Brookfield. He was of the view that modern world was full of unpleasant innovations. He was also against all those writers, dramatists and politicians who talked about the freedom of women. He was also against all those ladies who rode bicycles.

Question # 35:What kind of opinion did Chips have for men and women?

Answer : Chips was against the newness and freedom. He was of the view that nice women were weak, timid and delicate. He thought that nice men should treat their women with polite but rather distant chivalry.

Question # 36:Describe the outward appearance of Katherine?

Answer : Katherine was a beautiful young lady of 25 when she met Chips who was 48 at that time Katherine had blue flashing eyes, frenkled cheeks and smooth straw-coloured hair.

Question # 37:How did Katherine nurse Chips after his accident?

Answer : Katherine was very sensible lady. She considered herself responsible for Chips' accident. Therefore she visited Chips everyday and looked after him properly till he recovered.

Question # 38:Write a note on views and ideas of Katherine?

Answer : Katherine Bridges was a proponent of modetn times. She believed that women should be given equal rights with men in every fild of life. According to her point of view women should be admitted to the universities. She also believed that women should have a right to vote. In politics she was radical with leanings towards the views of such people as William Morris and Bernard Shaw.

Question # 39:Why was Chips unable to contradict/refute the views and ideas of Katherine Bridges?

Answer : Mr. Chips was not much articulate. He did not have any solid ground to oppose the views and ideas of Katherine Bridges. Moreover, whenever Katherine talked about any topic she supported it with logic. That's why Chips was unable to refute her ideas.

Question # 40:Who were Bernard Shaw and Ibsen?

Answer : Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright. Henry Ibsen was a Norwegian dramatist. Both these writer were radical in their views on politics and rights of women.

Question # 41:What were Chips' concepts about new women of 90s?

Answer :  Chips never felt at home or at ease with the women. The new women of 90's filled him with horror. In fact Chips was an orthodox person who disliked modernity. That's why he hated all those women who talked about their rights about their rights and rode bicycles.

Question # 42:Why did both Chips and Katherine decide to marry each other despite big age difference?

Answer : Katherine who was against the middle aged men began to like Chips because of his sincerity and civilized nature. On the other hand Chips, who never felt at home or at ease in the company of women began to like Katherine because of her wisdom and considerate nature. That's why both of them decided to marry each other despite big age difference.

Chapter#5

Question # 43:Why did Chips sometimes look at his feet when he lived at Mrs. Wickett?

Answer : During his stay at Mrs. Wickett, Chips always remembered the days of his life which he had spent with deceased wife, Katherine. He often looked at his feet and wondered which one of these that had performed a great service in his life. He remembered, if his ankle had not been broken, Katherine would not have entered his life.

Question # 44:What did Chips remember of the scenes in the Lake District?

Answer : Chips resaw the glorious hump of the Great Gable at the mouse grey depths of the Wastwater under the screes, he could resmell the washed air after having rain and refollow the ribbon of the pass to Sty Head. He also remembered Katherine's cool voice and the gay laughter.

Question # 45:How did Katherine read to the profession of Mr. Chips?

Answer : When Katherine met Chips for the first time in the Lake District, she thought that Chips was the solicitor, stock broker, dentist or a business man. When she came to know that Chips was a teacher, she was immensely pleased. She said to Chips, "School mastering is so different and so important because a teacher always has a very strong and deep effect on the mind of his students". 

Question # 46:How did Chips depreciate himself before Katherine in 1896?

Answer : One day in the Lake District, Chips had become a victim of hopelessness. He began to depreciate himself and all his achievements in front of Katherine. He told her that he had an average degree, he would never get a promotion and he would never get married. Katherine only laughed in answer.

Question # 47:How did Katherine see off Chips the night before the wedding?

Answer : On the night before wedding when Chips left the house to return to his hotel, Katherine said with mock gravity (artificial ; seriousness), "This is an occasion you know, this last farewell of ours. I feel rather like a new boy beginning his first term with you, not scared mind you but just for once in a thoroughly respectful mood. Shall I call you Sir or Mr. Chips would be the right thing?"

Chapter#6

Question # 48:How was Katherine welcomed at Brookfield?

Answer : Katherine conquered Brookfield as she already had conquered Chips. Soon she became very popular with boys and teachers alike. The wives of the school teachers who in the beginning felt some jealousy of her, became her friend.

Question # 49:What type of person was Chips before marriage?

Answer : Before marriage Chips was dry and rather neutral sort of person. He lived and worked for Brookfield and his students. In fact he was spending a limited life before marriage.

Question # 50:What had the teaching of same lessons formed in Chips?

Answer : Giving the same lesson years after years had formed grooved into which the other affairs of the Chips' life adjusted themselves with insidious ease.

Question # 51:What changes did marry bring in Chips?

Answer : Chips marriage with Katherine entirely changed his life. Katherine made him a new man. His eyes gained sparkle ; his mind began to move adventurously ; his sense of humour blossomed. He began to feel a greater strength, his discipline improved and he became more popular.

Question # 52:What types of jokes had Chips started making in his classes after his marriage?

Answer : After his marriage, Chips' sense of humour blossomed further so he began to make little jokes in the classes, the sort that school boys like. His jokes raised laughters and at the same time imprinted something in the mind.

Question # 53:Why did Chips became more popular with boys after his wedding? 

Answer : After marriage Chips discipline improved and he became more flexible. He started understanding the boys and their problems. As a result of it, he became very popular with school boys.

Question # 54:How did Katherine changed the views and ideas of Chips?

Answer : Katherine was more intelligent than Chips. She entirely changed the views and ideas of her husband. As a result of her modern thinking, Chips began to look far beyond the roofs and turrets of Brookfield. Her young idealism worked upon his maturity to produce an amalgam (alloy) very gentle and wise.

Question # 55:What is Lex Canuleia?

Answer : It was a law in the Roman history. This law permitted patricians to marry plebians

Question # 56:How did everybody at Brookfield receive Katherine's ideas of inviting the poor boys of the mission school?

Answer : Katherine was the proponent of the modern times. She believed in the equality of rich and poor. To eradicate the difference between the rich and the poor. She floated an idea of inviting the boys of the mission school to Brookfield. Unfortunately, the Brookfield administration was against the equality of the rich and the poor. So she opposed it strongly. 

Question # 57:How did Katherine convince of her point of view?

Answer : Katherine who believed in the equality of the rich and the poor explained to her husband that their country would not remain divided into the officers and other ranks. She told him that those poor boys of the Mission School were as much important for the glory of England as Brookfield boys were. After hearing her arguments Chips was completely convinced.

Question # 58:Write a note on the football match played between Brookfield and the mission school?

Answer : Despite the strong opposition from the Brookfield administration, a team from the mission school visited Brookfield and played a football match with school's second team. They were honourably defeated by the 7 goals to 5. They were also given a high tea. They met the Head of the Brookfield school and in the evening Mr. Chips saw them off at the railway station. The boys of the mission school succeeded in putting a very good influence on the Brookfield administration.

Question # 59:Who was Gribble?

Answer : Gribble was the school butler. He was the last person at Brookfield who had seen Katherine Bridges.

Chapter#7

Question # 60:How did Katherine's memories haunt Mr. Chips? How did a thousand recollection cast radiance when Chips remembered his time spent with Katherine?

Answer : Although Chips could spend only two years with Katherine yet he kept on remembering that pat of his life till the last moments of his life. In his imaginations he saw Katherine comparing along the stone corridors, laughing beside him at some howler in an essay he was marking, taking part  tendering her advice in any little problem that arose.

Question # 61:How did Katherine help Chips in running school affairs? How did Katherine plead the ease of naughty boys?

Answer : Katherine was an intelligent young girl. After her marriage with Chips, she played a vital role in his personal affairs. She was against the physical punishment given to the school boys. So she advised her husband instead of punishing naughty boys he should find out another way to settle the issue.

Question # 62:Why dd Chip forgive the naughty students after Katherine's death?

Answer : After Katherine's death, whenever Chips wished to punish a naughty boy, he was always at the mercy of softening waves of reminiscence. He thought if Katherine had been alive, she would have forgiven that naughty boys.

Question # 63:Why did Katherine sometime ask her husband to punish naughty boys?

Answer : Although Katherine did not like the physical punishment given to the school boys yet she did not like those school boys who were too cocksur of themselves. In their case she advised her husband not to be lenient.

Question # 64:Who was Dunster old ogilive?

Answer : Dunster was a very naughty school boy. He was notorious for his strange mischief. Once he put a rat in the organ-loft when old ogilive was taking choir practice. Ogilive was dead and Dunster drowned at Jutland.

Question # 65: Why was Chips unable to make a book on his memories?

Answer : Chips had his long desire to make a book on his memories because his mind was over-flowing with them. He also succeeded on making decultory notes in an exercise book. However he was unable to write a book on his memories because writing tired him both physically and mentally.

Question # 66:Who was Rushton?

Answer : Rushton was one of the school boys. A story of a sack of potatoes was associated with him. In practical life, he was sent to Burma or Borneo.

Chapter#8

Question # 67:Who was Faulkner?

Answer : Faulkner was one of the little boys at the Brookfield. He met Chips outside the school building on the day when Katherine died. In fact, he wanted to get permission from Chips to go to the station to meet his parents.

Question # 68:Why do Chips not want to receive condolences?

Answer : When Katherine died, Chips was in a great shock. He did not want to receive condolences because he wanted to get used to things.

Question # 69:Why was Chips sent blank letter on Apiril 1, 1998?

Answer : It is a Europeon tradition to befool one another on Apiril 1, 1898 to befool him. But he did not show any response because his wife and child died on the same day.

Chapter#9

Question # 70:Where did Chips shift to after Katherine's death?

Answer : After marriage with Katherine, Chips had changed his residence. But after her death, he left his commodious residence and went back to his old bachelor quarters.

Question # 71:Why did the school head asked Chips not to give up house mastership?

Answer : Katherine death had affected Chips deeply. He was so disappointed that he wanted to give up housemastership. The school head realized the gravity of the situation and advised Chips not to give up his work. The head knew if Chips left his work after Katherine's death, he would have become more disappointed.

Question # 72:What was the effect of Katherine's death on Chips?

Answer : Just as marriage had added something in Chips' life, so did the breavement. Katherine's death entirely changed the life of Chips. He became hopeless rather he also wanted to die. After Katherine's death, he became suddenly the kind of man whom boys at any rate unhesitatingly classed as old. 

Question # 73:Who was Naylor?

Answer : Once a school boy Naylor saw some cricket matches of Chips in which Chips played like a young man. Naylor was much surprised to witness it. He said, "Not half bad for an old chap like Chips".

Question # 74:Who was Malsbury?

Answer : Malsbury was an English lawyer. He was made Chancellar at 82 and died at 99. Chips referred to the long age of the Halsbury.

Question # 75:How did age make Chips mallow? What changes occured in Chips with the start of the new century after the Katherine's death?

Answer : With the beginning of the new century,there settled upon Chips a mellowness that gathered all his jokes and habits into a single harmony. He had no disciplinary problems. He also felt confident of his work and worth. He began to feel pride in himself and his position.

Question # 76:Describe some gentle eccentricities of Chips?

Answer : When Chips became an old man, he developed some gentle eccentricities, that so often attack the school masters and parsons.

He wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together.

When he stood on the school bench by the big hall steps to take attendance, it was with an air of mystic abandonment to ritual.

Question # 77:Describe varifying glance of Chips?

Answer : Chips used to take the attendance of the boys in a very mysterious way. That varifying glance of Chips had become a favourite subject of mimiery spectacles, slippering down the nose, eye-brows lifted one a little higher than other a gaze half rapt, half quizzical.

Question # 78:How much of her mind had Katherine bequeathed to Chips?

Answer : Katherine had not been able to bequeath him all her mind still less the brilliance of it ; but she had left him with the calmness and a poise that accorded well with his own inward emotions. As a result of it, he became more mature and wise.

Question # 79:What did Chips think of the Boers?

Answer : Chips did not share the general jingo bitterness against the Boers. Not that he was pro-boer, he was far too traditional for  that and he disliked the kind of people. However sometime Chips thought that the boers were busy in a struggle that had a strange similarity to those of certain English history book heroes.

Question # 80:What did Chips say to the Lloyd George when he came as the guest of the honour to Brookfield?

Answer : Once Lloyd George came to the Brookfield as a chief guest in a function. Once he had been Chips' student. Chips said to him, "Mr. Lloyd George, I am nearly old enough to remember you as a young man and I confess that you seem to me to have to improved a great deal".

Chapter#10

Question # 81:Who was Meldrum and how did he die?

Answer : Meldrum was the head of the school. He was made the school head in 1870. After the death of Whether By Meldrum served the school for 30 years and in 1900 he died of Pneumonia.

Question # 82:Why was Chips not made the permanent head of the school?

Answer : After the death of Meldrum in 1900, Chips was made the Acting Head of the school for the first time. However the governers did not make his appointment permanent because of his mediocre degree and problems in discipline. The governers appointed the Ralston as a new school head.

Question # 83:What kind of personality did Ralston have?

Answer : After the death of Meldrum in 1900, Ralston was made the permanent head of the school. He was a live wire who could reduce big hall to silence by the mere lifting of an eyebrow. He had a brilliant education record. He wanted to make Brookfield an up to date school. 

Question # 84:How did Ralston announce the death of King Edward VII?

Answer : When King Edward VII died, Ralston ordered the whole school to assemble in the big hall. He announced the death of King Edward VII in the front of the school in these words, "You will be deeply grieved to hear that His Magesty the King Edward the seventh died this morning. There will be no school this afternoon but a service will be held in the chapel at 4:30".

Question # 85:What duty was assigned to Brookfield boys during the railway strike?

Answer : Once the railway men were on strike. Soldiers were driving the engines while stones had been thrown at the trains. Brookfield boys were patrolling the railway lines. It was a great fun for the school boys.

Question # 86:Who was Mr. Jones?

Answer : Mr. Jones was one of the strikers. Mr. Chips talked with him during the railway strike. A school boy, Cricklade was amazed when he saw Chips talking to the striker.

Question # 87:What were political circumstance of England in the early 20th century?

Answer : England had very unstable political conditions in the early 20th century. Chips was afraid that the English politicians were taking the nation into the channels. where a hair's breadth of error might be catastrophic. 

Question # 88:Describe the queen's diamond jubilee.

Answer : When the English queen celebrated her diamond jubilee, there had been a whole holiday at Brookfield.Chips took the Katherine to London to see the procession. They saw that, that old and legendary lady was sitting in her carriage like some crumbling wooden dull. That queen had symbolised impressively so many things that like herself were nearing an end.

Question # 89:Write a note on Edwardian decade?

Answer : After the death of the queen, Edward was made the English king. He ruled over the England for ten years but it was a very tough time for the people of England. The main features of his rule were strikes and lock outs, Champagne suppers and unemployed marchers, Chinese labours, tarrif reforms, H.M.S and saffrogettes.

Question # 90:Who was Grayson? Why did Chips rebuke him?

Answer : Grayson was a little school boy who was quite and little nervous. Once his father sailed in the titanic which sank in its first journey. Grayson was worried about the safety of his father. He was preoccupied that's why Chips rebuked him.

Question # 91:Which Grayson had Chips to console with?

Answer : Chips had to console with Grayson senior. It was very unexpected. In the beginning the news of the Grayson senior death was in the air but he survived. Later unfortunately Grayson junior died. 

Chapter#11

Question # 92:Why did Chips think himself safe during the headship of Ralston?

Answer :Both Chips and Ralston did not like each other. Despite this mutual hatred, Chips considered himself sufficiently protected because of his age and seniority from the fate of other teachers whom Ralston had failed to like. However Chips was wrong in his estimate.

Question # 93:What was Ralston's urbane ultimatum(demand)?

Answer :Ralston wanted to get rid of Chips by any means because he did not like Chips. So when Chips turned up sixty, came Ralston's urbane ultimatum, "Mr. Chipping have you ever thought you would like to retire?".

Question # 94:How did Ralston charged sheet Chips?What were extraordinary allegations/indictmints of Ralston?

Answer :Ralston blamed Chips of slackness, carelessness and disobedience. These were Ralston's extraordinary allegations on Chips.

Question # 95:How did Chips tackle the allegation of pronunciation?

Answer :Ralston told Chips that he wanted the new pronunciation of two words. Chips replied that it was foolishness to make boys to say "kikero" at school when for the rest of the life they would say "cicero" and instead of "viccissim", it was again foolishness to force the students to say, "We kiss him".

Question # 96:What did Ralston say to Chips about his classical subjects? 

Answer :When both Chips and Ralston were having hot words with each other, Ralston told Chips that he had no objection to the classical education. He further told Chips that he wanted to teach these dead languages in the modern educational techniques.

Question # 97:What did Chips tell Ralston about his syllabus?

Answer :Chips told Ralston that he had been teaching the same syllabus since 1870. He further told him that his syllabus was approved by Mr. Wetherby. He said Mr. Ralston that Wetherby told him.

Question # 98:Where did Ralston meet the wealthy people?

Answer :Ralston met the wealthy people in London clubs and persuaded them that Brookfield was the coming school. In fact these wealthy people could not buy their way into Eton or Harrow. They greedily swallowed their bait.

Question # 99:What should Brookfield teach according to the Chips?

Answer :Chips was against the examinations and certificates. He was of the opinion that Brookfield should teach its students how to maintain a sense of proportion. It should not teach Latin or Greek or Chemistry or Mechanics.

Question # 100:How did people of the town came to know of the row between Chips and Ralston?

Answer :When both Chips and Ralston were exchanging hot words with each other a school boy standing outside the office listened to that completely. He was shocked and in no time he informed all of the boys of that mishap. The boys told their parents and in this way the people of the town came to know of that incident.

Question # 101:What did Chips learn about Ralston after that row?

Answer :After the row everybody at the Brookfield supported Chips wholeheartedly. Chips came to know that Ralston was unpopular in the school. He was feared and respected but not liked.

Question # 102Why did the school teachers rally round the Chips?

Answer :The school teacher disliked the Ralston slave driving. They realized that Chips would be the winner in the fight, so they rallied round Chips.

Question # 103:Who was Sir Johns Rivers?

Answer :John Rivers was the Chairman of the board of Governors of the school. When he was the child, he studied at the same school. He was the direct student of Chips so he supported Chips when Ralston quarelled with Chips.

Question # 104:How did Sir John River support Chips?

Answer :When John Rivers came to know about that Ralston had insulted Chips, he visited the school. He told Chips would not be the same without him.So the Governess wanted to see Chips in the school permanently. 

Question # 105: How was Ralston running the school?

Answer : While arguing with Ralston, Chips thought that Ralston was running the school like a factory - a factrory for turning out a snobe-culture based on money and machines. He thought that Ralston was working only for the children of the rich people.

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Question # 106:When and why did Ralston leave the Brookfield?

Answer : Ralston had to endure strong opposition from everyone after his fight with Chips. He could hardly spend three years after that mishap. So in 1911, he resigned from the school and went to the greater public school "to better himself".

Question # 107:Who was Chatteris?

Answer : Chatteris was the successor of Ralston. He was only 34 when he was appointed the school head. He was a very intelligent person who recognized the importance of the Chips for Brookfield. He courteously and wisely accepted this situation.

Question # 108: Why did Chips decide to resign finally? What befell Chips in 1913?

Answer : Chips had an attack of Bronchitis in 1913. He had to remain in bed for a long time. That illness forced him to decide for resignation. He was also sixty five and it was good ripe age. Chips also felt that it was unfair if he kept on discharging his duties even at that age.

Question # 109:How did Chips remember the school captain in his farewell speech?

Answer : Chips was given a farewell party in July, 1913. During his speech he remembered the school captain in these words, "The school captain belongs to an exaggerating family. I remember once having to thrash his father for it. I gave him one mark for a Latin translation and he exaggerated the one into seven".

Question # 110:Write a note on the farewell speech of Chips?

Answer : Chips was given a farewell in 1913. He made a speech and entertained the audience with many Latin quotations and past events. During his speech he mentioned the lamp boy, a hard frost, the great bonfire, Mrs. Brool, the Chairman of the Boards of Governors and the faces of his students.

Question # 112:Who was Mrs. Brool?

Answer : During farewell speech, Chips remembered Mrs. Brool. He told the audience that Mrs. Brool used to work in the school canteen. She served there until an uncle in Australia left her a lot of money.

Question # 113:How did Chips remember Sir John Rivers in his farewell speech?

Answer : John Rivers the chairman of the boards of governers had been Chips' student when he was a little boy. During farewell speech, Chips told the audience that when John Rivers was a school boy, he could not understand verbs. Chips also told that John River was a jolly little fellow in his school life.

Question # 114:Who was Herr Staefel?

Answer : Herr Staefel was a German master at Brookfield. When Chips visited Germany in July, 1913, he stayed at Staefel's house. Although there was a big age difference between the two yet they got on excellently. 

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Question # 115:What was Chips' opinion about the World War I?

Answer : Durin the first word war, Chips was asked to give his opinion about the conclusion of it. Chips replied that it should have finished by Christmas, but that could not happened and the war continued.

Question # 116:Who was Forrester?

Answer : Forrester was the smallest new boy Brookfield had ever had - about four feet high above his muddy football boots. He took part in the first world war and was killed in 1918 - shot down in flames over Cambrai. 

Question # 117:Who was Blades?

Answer : Blades was the head of the school house when the first world war broke out. He was only eighteen years old during that time and he also participated in first world war.

Question # 118:What happened to Brookfield during the war in 1915? What services did Brookfield rendered during the first world war?

Answer : During the first world war, The British soldiers used the playing fields for the sports and training. The school's old students took part in the war and sacrificed their lives for the glory of their country.

Question # 119:What did Chatteris read out on every sunday during the war years?

Answer : During the war years on every sunday, Chatteris read out the names of the old boys killed together with the short biographies. It was a very moving scene, but Chips in the back pew (bench) under the gallery thought : they are only names to him he does not see their faces.

Question # 120:Why did Chatteris go to Chips in catastrophc July? What request did Chatteris make to Chips?

Answer : During the first world war, once Chatteris called on Chips in his room. He told Chips that he had been spending a very hard time in Brookfield due to the non-serious attitude of some school teachers. He also called about his illness. In the end he requested the Chips to come back to school and help him in running the school affairs. 

Question # 121:What did Chips feel when Chatteris told him about his problems and disease?

Answer : When Chatteris called on Chips in July, 1916, he told Chips about his disease and problems which he had been facing in the school, Chips was shocked and felt sorry for Chatteris. In fact Chips liked Chatteris and wished to help him.

Question # 122:Describe the health problem of Chatteris?

Answer : Chatteris was 39 years old in July, 1916. He was still unmarried. Unfortunately, he was also a chronic patient of diabetes. So his health was going down day by day and as a result of it he died in Apiril, 1918.

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Question # 123:How did Chips feel when he rejoined the school as a teacher?

Answer : Chips rejoined Brookfield on the request of Chatteris in 1916. He felt very fit and actual work was not taxing. He had to take just a few forms in Latin and Roman history. He felt a little like a music hall favourite returning to the boards after a positively last appearance.

Question # 124:Why was Chips a grand success? How Chips feel in 1916 that he was necessary for Brookfield?

Answer : During the first world war, Chips was called back at the school to hold the difficult situation over there. Chips realized that he was necessary for the school because the school administration still needed him in the school. No doubt even after rejoining of the school he was a grand success because he succeeded in holding the things.

Question # 125:What was meant by Chips' latest?

Answer : Chips' latest were his fresh jokes. His new jokes were about the O.T.C and food rationing system and the anti-air-raid blinds that had to be fitted on all windows. His another joke was about a mysterious kind of rissole. Chips called it "abhorrendum", meat to be abhorred.

Question # 126:Why was Chips made the acting head of the school for the second time?

Answer : Chatteris the school head died in Apiril, 1918. For the second time in his life, Chips was made the acting head of the school. However he refused to become the permanent head because of his health. He said to John Rivers, "You see I am not a young man and I don't want people to expect a lot from me. I am like all these new Colonels and majors you see everywhere --- just a war-time-fluke. A ranker, that's all, I am reality".

Question # 127:How did Chips announce the death of Max Staefel in the Chapel?

Answer : Max Staefel was a German teacher at the Brookfield. He was killed fighting from Germans. In fact he was enemy to England but he had worked at Brookfield so Chips broke the news of his death.

Question # 128:What was the Chips' opinion about bayonet practice?

Answer : During the war years, once the British soldiers carried on bayonet-practice on the school's grounds. Chips was asked for his opinion about it. He answered,

"It seems to me a very vulgar way of killing people".

Question # 129:What was the pre-war man?

Answer : Mr. Chips was an old man who felt unhappy with the changes brought by the first world war. He believed in generosity and kindness. That's why he was called a pre-war man.

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Question # 130:How did Chips behave during the shelling?

Answer : Once during the war years when Chips was taking his class in the school house, air-raid started. Chips don't allow the students to leave the class. He knew if he allow the students to leave the class, they could be harmed so he kept on teaching them and encouraging them.

Question # 131:Whom did Chips called the stink merchant?

Answer : During the air raid, little boys became scared. Realizing their fear Chips encouraged them by calling the science teacher of the school a stink merchant. The little boys began to laugh for a while.

Question # 132:Who was Maynard?

Answer : Maynard was a little school boy who was in the class when the air-raid started near Brookfield. On that night he began to translate a Latin paragraph which was about the Brutal nature of Germans. He also appreciated the intelligence of his teacher, Mr. Chips.

Question # 133:What did they discover after shelling around the Brookfield? Describe the air raid at Brookfield?

Answer : After the air raid, Chips and his students discovered that five bombs were dropped in and around the Brookfield. The nearest of them was just outside the school grounds. Nine persons were killed in that attack.

Question # 134:Describe the scene in the dining hall?

Answer : The first world war came to an end on November 11, 1918. The whole day holiday was given to the school and the kitchen staff was requested to provide a descent meal. There was much cheering and stinking and bread fight across the dining hall. When Chips entered in the midst of the uproar, there was an instant hush.

Question # 135:When and why did Chips resign from the school once again?

Answer : After attending the dining hall on November 11, 1918, Chips was attacked by Bronchitis once again. His illness forced him to resign from  the school again.

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Question # 136:What was the condition of Chips health fifteen years after his second retirement?

Answer : Even after his second retirement, Chips did not suffer from any serious illness. His faculties were all unimpaired, He continued his hospitality in his room. However, sometimes he felt some problems with his breathing.

Question # 137:Which was the favourite season of Chips?

Answer : Summer was the favourite season of Chips. During that season, he went towards the school ground and strdled for sometime. During that season his old students also visited him and he enjoyed their visits.

Question # 138:Which was the most enjoyable thing for Chips during the last stage of his life?

Answer : During the last stage of his life, Chips meeting with his old students was the most enjoyable thing for him. Every weekend some of the old students motored upto the Brookfield and called at his house. 

Question # 139:Who was Grayson?

Answer : Grayson was an old student of Chips. He was notorious for his laziness. In practical life, he got a job with the League of Nations. 

Question # 140:How was post war decade?

Answer : The post war decade in England swept through a clatter of change and maladjustments (faults). Chips was deeply disappointed due to the political blunders of the English Politicians. He also that his country had sacrificed much to bring peace and stability in the world. 

Question # 141:Why was Chips satisfied with Brookfield?

Answer : Although Chips was much disappointed due to the unstable political condition of his country yet he was satisfied with Brookfield. It was rooted in things that had stood the test of time and changes and war.

Question # 142:What was shocking to Chips about the master Fresh from Oxford?

Answer : One of the new masters, Fresh from Oxford had permitted his students to call him by his Christian name. Chips did not like that, indeed he was just a little pit shot. He told some boys that, that teacher might as well sign his terminal reports, "Yours affectionately".

Question # 143:Why did Chips call the General Strike of 1926 fine advertisement?

Answer : During the General strike of 1926, Chips was disturbed emotionally. According to Chips that strike was a fine advertisement because it remained six days and no body was killed in it. 

Question # 144:Why had Chips earned the reputation of being a Great Jester? 

Answer : During the last years of his life, Chips had earned the reputation of being a great jester, and jests were expected of him. Whenever he rose to speak at a meeting or whenever he talked across a table, people prepared their minds and faces for a joke and it was very easy for Chips to satisfy them.

Question # 145:Why did Chips not leave Brookfield after 1929?

Answer : After 1929, Chips had become very old so he did not leave Brookfield even for old boy dinner in London. He was afraid of chills. Once he was attacked by Bronchitis. After that he used to say, "I prefer to get my chill in my own country". 

Question # 146:What was Chips' will?

Answer : Chips made his will in 1930. Except for the lagacies to mission and to Mrs. Wickett. He left all he had to found an open entrance scholarships to the school.

Question # 147:Who was Handerson?

Answer : Handerson was one of the school boys. Once Chips gave a cheery answer to his question. Chips said, "Well Handerson when I was a much younger, there used to be some one who promised people nine pence for four pence. I don't know that any body ever got it but our present rulers seems to have solved the problem of how to give four pence for nine pence".

Question # 148:What was Wurlitizer?

Answer : Wurlitizer was a cinema organ. Once Chips told some little boys that he had imagined it to be a kind of sausage. The little children were immensely amused to it.

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Question # 149:What two things had Chips not done in his life?

Answer : Chips had never travelled by air and he had never been to a talky show. So that he was both more and less experienced than the younest boy at the school might well be.

Question # 150:Who was Linford?

Answer : Linford was the last school boy who meet the Chips the night before the death of Chips. Both Chips and Linford spend sometime by talking about different things. Linford was going back after the tea party he said, "Good-Bye Mr. Chips."

Question # 151:How did Linford remind Chips of his dead wife?

Answer : After the tea party when Linford was leaving Chips he said, "Good-Bye Mr. Chips". These words of Linford reminded Chips of his dead wife. He remembered that Katherine had used the same words the night before the wedding. He began to weep.

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Question # 152:Who were around Chips when he was in a state of delirium?

Answer : When Chips was in a state of delirium, Dr. Merivale, Mrs. Wickett, Cartwright and old buffle were around his bad. They were talking about the life of Chips and Cartwright also talked about the issuelessness of Chips. Chips delerium was full of the picture of his past.

Question # 153: What did Chips say about his children? 

Or

What was Chips reaction when Cartwright express the issuelessness of Chips? 

Or 

What were the last words of Chips?

Answer : When Chips was in the state of delerium, Cartwright felt sorry on Chips issuelessness. At that Chips opened his eyes and told everybody present in the room that he had thousands of children and all were boys.

Question # 154: What was announced in the Brookfield?

Answer : When the news of the death of Chips arrived at Brookfield every body felt sorry. Cartwright in a speech to the school said, "Brookfield will never forget his loveableness".