Goodbye Mr. Chips Chapter 3 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 3 are given here.
Q.1. Describe Mrs. Wickett’s house?
Ans: Mrs. Wickett’s house was situated across the road to Brookfield. The house itself was ugly and pretentious. But that did not matter. It was convenient to Chips
Q.2. Why did Mr. Chips choose to live at Mrs. Wickett’s?
Ans: Mr. Chips chose to live at Mrs. Wickett’s because it was convenient. Living across the road to Brookfield provided Chips an opportunity to keep close contact with Brookfield.
Q.3. What kind of room Chips had at Mrs. Wickett’s place?
Ans: It was a small but very comfortable and sunny room. It was simply furnished with a school mastery taste. There were a few bookshelves and sporting trophies. A mantelpiece crowded with fixture-cards and signed photographs of boys and men; a worn Turkey carpet; big easy-chairs;pictures on the wall, of the Acropolis and the Forum.
Q.4. What Chips liked to do when the weather was mild?
Ans: He liked to stroll across to the playing-fields in the afternoon and watch the games. He
liked to smile and exchange a few words with the boys.
Q.5. How did he welcome the new boys?
Ans: He made a special point of getting to know all the new boys and having them to tea with
him during their first term.
Q.6. How did Chips entertain the boys?
Ans: He served the boys with a walnut cake with pink icing from the Reddaway’s in the village
and during winter term there were crumpets too. His guests found it fun to watch him make tea
as he mixed careful spoonfuls from different caddies.
Q.7. Who was Collingwood?
Ans: Collingwood was a student of Chips in 1902. Chips once thrashed him for climbing onto the gymnasium roof to get a ball out of gutter. He might have broken his neck, later he received a medal D.S.O and was killed in Egypt. He was a major in the army.
Q.8. Who was Branksome?
Ans: Branksome was the nephew of Collingwood.
Q.9. What type of life Chips had at Mrs. Wickett’s?
Ans: It was a pleasant, placid life. He had no worries, his pension was adequate and there was little money saved up too.
Q.10. What kind of books did Chips have in his rooms?
Ans: The books were chiefly classical. There were a few books of history and Belles-letter and elegant literature. There was also a pile of cheap detective novels.
Q.11. What kind of books did Chips read?
Ans: Sometimes, he took down Virgil or Xenophan and read for a few moments, but he was soon
back again with Doctor Thorndyke or inspector French.
Q.12. What were Chips’ views about Latin and Greek?
Ans: Mr. Chips thought that Latin and Greek were dead languages from which English gentlemen ought to know a few quotations. Despite teaching for a long period, he was not a good classical scholar.
Q.13. How Chips spent his time at Mrs. Wickett’s after retirement?
Ans: He spent his time drinking tea, receiving callers, correcting next editions of the Brookfieldian Directory, writing occasional letters in thin, spidery but legible script. He also had new masters and boys to tea.
Q.14. What was the misconception about Mr. Chips’ marital life?
Ans: People thought that Mr. Chips was a bachelor. This was oddly incorrect. He had married but it was so long ago that none of the staff at Brookfield could remember his wife.
