Goodbye Mr. Chips Chapter 1 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 1 are given here.
Q.1. How did Chips measure time?
Ans: Chips measured time like some old sea-captain by the signals of the past. The Brookfield
school bell was the signal of his past.
Q.2. What would Chips do after the last bell?
Ans: He 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.
Q.3. What was the opinion of Dr. Merivale about the health of Chips?
Ans: Dr. Merivale used to encourage Chips by saying that he would die a natural death. And he
was past the age when people get those horrible diseases.
Q.4. How often did Dr. Merivale visit Chips?
Ans: Dr. Merivale visited Mr. Chips every fortnight for his medical examination.
Q.5. From what disease did Mr. Chips suffer?
Ans: Mr. Chips did not suffer from any particular disease. It was only old age. If he suffered
from bronchitis during winter Merivale would advise Mrs. Wickett to look after him as his chest
put a strain on his heart.
Q.6. When was Chips born?
Ans: Chips was born in 1848.
Q.7. What Chips could still boast of?
Ans: Chips would boast that he was taken to the Great Exhibition as a toddler.
Q.8. Why Chips left Melbury?
Ans: Chips did not like Melbury because he had been ragged there a great deal. And his discipline was also not very strong.
Q.9. How long did he serve there?
Ans: He served there for a year
Q.10. Who was Wetherby?
Ans: Mr. Wetherby was the headmaster of the Brookfield and interviewed Mr. Chips in 1870. He
was fatherly and courteous.
Q.11. What was Wetherby’s advice?
Ans: Wetherby advised Chips to give his enthusiasm to Brookfield and he would get something
in return. He also told Chips to take up a firm attitude from the beginning.
Q.12. Who was Colley? Why was he punished?
Ans: Colley was the first boy Chips punished in Brookfield on his first day. Colley dropped the
desk so Chips punished him by giving him hundred lines.