Goodbye Mr. Chips Chapter 4 short questions answers
Goodbye Mr. Chips is an interesting historic novel by James Hilton. This novel has been included in Intermediate F.Sc Part II 2nd year English syllabus in Pakistan.
Goodbye Mr Chips is has total 18 chapters. The short question answers are given for every chapter. These solved questions are made for 2nd year English. The important questions from chapter 4 are given here.
Q.1. When and with whom Chips went to Lake District?
Ans: Chips went to Lake District during the summer vacation with a colleague Rowden in 1896.
Q.2. How did he meet Katherine?
Ans: Chips noticed a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous looking ledge. He hastened towards her thinking that she was in trouble, in doing so he slipped himself and wrenched his ankle. She was not actually in difficulty but was only signaling to a friend.
Q.3. What Chips thought about women?
Ans: He did not care for women. He never felt at home or at ease with them. The new woman of nineties filled him with horror. He considered them as a monstrous creature. He did not like the modern new ness and freedom.
Q.4. What was the concept of nice women near Chips?
Ans: Nice women were weak, timid and delicate. They were treated with a polite but rather distant chivalry by nice men.
Q.5. Describe Katherine?
Ans: Katherine Bridges was twenty-five. She had blue flashing eyes, freckled cheeks and smooth straw-colored hair. She was a governess out of job.
Q.6. What were Katherine’s views about women’s right/ what were her political views?
Ans: She read and admired Ibsen. She believed the women ought to be admitted to the universities and ought to have a vote. In politics she was radical with leanings towards the views of people like Bernard Shaw and William Morris.
Q.7. What did Katherine think of Chips at first?
Ans: She thought he was quiet, middle aged and a serious looking man.
Q.8. Why Katherine liked Chips initially?
Ans: She liked him because he was so hard to get to know. He had gentle and quiet manners; his opinions dated from eighties and seventies but were so thoroughly honest. He had brown eyes and he looked charming when he smiled.
