Mr. Chips chapter 4 questions

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Q.1. What thing did stir Mr. Chips’ memories?

Ans: The warmth of the fire and the gentle aroma of tea stirred his memories.

Q.2. When was Chips appointed housemaster?

Ans: Chips was appointed housemaster in 1896 at the age of forty-eight.

Q.3. Who went with Mr. Chips to the Lake District?

Ans: Mr. Chips went to the Lake District with his colleague Rowden for their summer holidays.

Q.4. How much time did Mr. Chips and Rowden spend together in the Lake District?

Ans: They spent a week together, during which they walked and climbed.

Q.5. Where did Mr. Chips stay in the Lake District?

Ans: Mr. Chips stayed alone in a small farmhouse at Wasdale Head.

Q.6. How did Mr. Chips meet Katherine for the first time?

Ans: While climbing Great Gable, Mr. Chips saw a girl waving excitedly from a dangerous ledge. He rushed to her aid, believing she was in trouble. However, he slipped and wrenched his ankle. The woman turned out to be Katherine Bridges, who was not in danger but was signaling to her friend.

Q.7. How did Chips feel in the company of women?

Ans: Mr. Chips did not feel at ease with women and did not care for them. He considered the women of the 1890s as monstrous creatures, which horrified him.

Q.8. Why did Chips not like Bernard Shaw and Ibsen and bicycling?

Ans: Mr. Chips did not like modern women’s interests, including Bernard Shaw and Ibsen. He also disapproved of women riding bicycles. He found their modern views reprehensible.

Q.9. What notion did Chips have about women?

Ans: Mr. Chips believed that nice women were weak, timid, and delicate. He thought that nice men treated women with polite but rather distant chivalry.

Q.10. Give a physical description of Katherine Bridges.

Ans: Katherine was a young woman of 25 with blue flashing eyes, freckled cheeks, and smooth straw-colored hair. She was a governess out of a job who later married Mr. Chips in 1896. She tragically died during childbirth on April 1, 1898.

Q.11. Why did Katherine visit Chips on her bicycle?

Ans: Katherine visited Mr. Chips on her bicycle because she felt responsible for his accident, and she came to check on him and assist him.

Q.12. What did Chips think when Katherine visited him alone?

Ans: Mr. Chips began to wonder what the world was coming to when he saw a young woman like Katherine visiting a man alone in a farmhouse.

Q.13. What was the profession of Katherine?

Ans: Katherine Bridges worked as a governess, but she was currently out of a job. She had also saved some money.

Q.14. Why did Chips not contradict Katherine’s political views when she expressed them to him?

Ans: Mr. Chips did not feel the need to contradict Katherine’s political views because he was inarticulate and tended to avoid arguments.

Q.15. How did Katherine begin to like Chips?

Ans: Katherine began to like Mr. Chips due to his gentle and quiet manners, his honest if outdated views, and the charming look in his brown eyes when he smiled.

Q.16. What were the political views of Mr. Chips?

Ans: Mr. Chips held conservative political views. He disapproved of modernity and had a distaste for figures like Bernard Shaw, Ibsen, and William Morris due to their views.

Q.17. What was the most interesting event in the novel?

Ans: The most interesting event in the novel was Mr. Chips’ chance meeting with Katherine Bridges while climbing in the Lake District in the spring of 1896. This encounter marked the beginning of their relationship.

Q.18. What were Katherine’s views about middle-aged men before meeting Chips?

Ans: Katherine had a preconceived notion that middle-aged men who read ‘The Times’ and disapproved of modernity were boring and could not win her affection. However, Mr. Chips proved to be an exception.

Q.19. What kind of political views did Katherine have?

Ans: In politics, Katherine Bridges held radical views with a leaning towards the ideas of Bernard Shaw and William Morris. She believed that women should be admitted to universities and have the right to vote.

Q.20. Why was the spring of 1896 important/special for Chips?

Ans: The spring of 1896 was significant for Mr. Chips because it was the time when he had a chance meeting with Katherine Bridges in the Lake District, an encounter that would change his life as they eventually got married.

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