Goodbye Mr. Chips Chapter 9 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 6 are given here.
Q.1. How different Chips looked after Katherine’s death?
Ans: Chips looked different after the first stupor of grief he started looking “old”
Q.2. Where did Chips move to after his wife’s death?
Ans: Chips changed his more commodious apartment in school House for his old original bachelor quarters after the death of his wife. But he did not leave his house mastership.
Q.3. How did his school mastership prove useful after the death of his wife?
Ans: Mr. Chips wanted to give up his house mastership after the death of his wife but the headmaster convinced him otherwise. Later, he was glad. The work filled up the emptiness in his mind and heart.
Q.4. What changes did occur in Chips with the start of new century after Katherine’s death?
Ans: His habits and jokes merged into a harmony. He began to feel pride in himself and his position.
Q.5. What did Chips no longer feel?
Ans: Chips no longer had those slight and occasional disciplinary troubles or feel different about his own worth and work.
Q.6. What had he won by seniority and ripeness?
Ans: He had won an un-chartered no man’s land of privilege; he had acquired the right to those gentle eccentricities that often attack schoolmasters and parsons.
Q.7. What had Katherine left Chips with?
Ans: She has left him with calmness and a poise that accorded well with his inward emotions.
Q.8. What sort of gown did Chips wear after the death of Katherine?
Ans: Chips cared the least about his dress and demeanor. He wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together.
Q.9. How did Chips take call-over?
Ans: Chips wore a tattered gown and stood on the wooden bench by big hall steps to take call- over. Each boy spoke his own name for Chips to verify and then tick off on the list.
Q.10. What was the easy and favorite subject of mimicry?
Ans: The verifying glance of Chips when he took call-over was the easy and favorite subject of mimicry. His steel-rimmed spectacles slipping down the nose, eyebrows lifted a gaze half-rapt and half quizzical.
Q.11. What did Chips think about Boers?
Ans: Chips thought Boers were engaged in a struggle that had a curious similarity to those of certain English book heroes such as Hereward the wake or Caractacus.
Q.12. Which Prime Minister of England did visit Brookfield School?
Ans: Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, visited Brookfield School.
