Intermediate F.Sc F.A ICS I.Com English XII Short Questions Good Bye Mr. Chips Chapter 15 2nd Year English Notes Online Taleem Ilmi Hub Class 12th
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Q 1. How did Chips take his class during an air raid?
Ans. Mr. Chips was taking his lower fourth class when an air
raid started. He continued his class boldly during the shelling while boys were
much nervous. He did not turn a hair and even found some old tags to explain the
situation.
Q 2. What did Chips remark about the loud explosion?
Ans. He remarked that one could not judge the importance of things
by the noise they made and the things had mattered for thousands of years were
not going to be destroyed because some stink merchant in his laboratory had
invented a new kind of mischief.
Q 3. Do you think Chips was anti-war or pre-war?
Ans. Yes, Chips was an anti-war. He thought that some stink
merchants were inventing dangerous weapons to make the people unsafe.
Q 4. Describe the horrors of the air raid at Brookfield?
Ans. On a night of full moonlight, the air raid warning was
given while Chips was taking his lower-fourth in Latin. The guns began
instantly, and plenty of shrapnel fell about outside the building. But they
were safe on the ground floor of school house but five bombs had fallen in and
around Brookfield and nine people died as a result.
Q 5. When did Mr. Chips fall ill?
Ans. Mr. Chips fell ill on the night of November 11, 1918.
It was a damp foggy day. His walk across the quadrangle to the dining hall had
given him a chill and he was in bed with bronchitis.
Q 6. Why did Chips resign again? / When did Chips send his
resignation from the headship?
Ans. On the night of November 11, 1918, after his visit to
the dining hall, he sent in his resignation to the Board of Governors because
he got ill.
Q 7. Who was the stink merchant? / Whom did Chips call stink
merchants?
Ans. Burrow was a pale, lean and medically unfit science
master and was nicknamed the Stink-Merchant at Brookfield. Chips used this word
for the scientists who were inventing dangerous weapons in their laboratories.
Symbolically, it was a reference to the countries involved in the dangerous
World War I.
Q 8. How was the end of war (Armistice Day) celebrated at
Brookfield?
Ans. The war ended on November 11, 1918. The day
was celebrated as Armistice Day. A whole holiday was declared. There were much
cheering and singing and a bread-fight across the dining hall.
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