Goodbye, Mr. Chips Chapter 1

The soldiers were driving engines; stones had been thrown at the trains. Brookfield boys were patrolling the line with Chips in charge.

Mr. Jones was in charge of the signal box at the railway station, but Chips met him as a striker that day.

Mr. Chips, along with Katherine, went to London to see the procession celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

<p>Chips saw the old legendary lady Queen Victoria sitting in her carriage like a crumbling wooden doll.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Grayson was upset because his father had sailed on the Titanic, and no news had yet come through whether he was alive or dead.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston joined Brookfield public school as the Headmaster in 1900 at the age of 37. He was a strict disciplinarian, ruthless, ambitious, and a fine power transmitter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips felt protected by age and seniority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston's urbane ultimatum was to ask Chips to retire from Brookfield.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston accused Chips of his slack and old-fashioned teaching methods, and his slovenly personal habits, stating that Chips ignored his instructions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston asked Chips to look at his gown, which was a continual subject of amusement throughout the school.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston said it was probably a mixture of laziness and obstinacy, noting that all the masters changed their pronunciation except him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston was trying to run Brookfield like a factory for turning out a snob-culture based on money and machines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small boy waiting to see Ralston had been listening outside the door to the arguments between Ralston and Chips. He told his friends, who then informed their parents, making it common knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The masters agreed that Chips was old-fashioned; however, they gathered around Chips because they hated Ralston’s slave driving.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips broke down because Sir John Rivers told him that the Governors did not want him to retire; Brookfield would not be the same without him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chatteris was Ralston's successor and he joined Brookfield in 1911. He was thirty-four years old; he was modern, friendly, and sympathetic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1913 he remained off duty for nearly the whole of the winter term because of bronchitis, and Ralston’s straight words had an effect on him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips said that he had spent forty-two years in Brookfield and it had been his life. He remembered the lamp-boy, seven weeks of hard frost, German measles, Mafeking night bonfire, and Mrs. Brool.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Herr Staefal was a German master at Brookfield who was thirty years younger than Chips, but they were very friendly. He was killed on the Western Front.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips found plenty to do; he had all the new boys to tea, watched important matches, dined with the head and masters, prepared and edited the new Brookfieldian Directory, accepted the presidency of the Old Boy’s club, wrote articles for the Brookfieldian terminal magazine, and read 'Times' and detective stories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Forrester was the smallest new boy Brookfield ever had, about four feet high above his muddy football boots. He was killed in 1918, shot down in flames over Cambrai.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips felt deeply affected, knowing they were not just names but faces of his students, his boys.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chatteris was diabetic and could not be enlisted in the army. He was also considered slack and inefficient by others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chatteris wanted Chips to come back because his presence would be a source of help for him in managing Brookfield during wartime.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips felt like a music-hall favourite returning to the boards after positively last appearance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips made new jokes about the O.T.C, the food rationing system, anti-air-raid blinds, and rissole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chatteris fell ill during the winter of 1917 and died in April.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>After the death of Chatteris in 1917, Chips was asked to become the Acting Head for the second time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>On Sundays in Chapel, Chips read out the tragic list and it was seen and heard that he was in tears over it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips considered bayonet fighting a vulgar way of killing people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The air raid warning was given, and the guns began almost instantly with plenty of shrapnel falling outside.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips said that you can't judge the importance of things by the noise they made.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Burrow was the pale, lean, and medically unfit science master, nicknamed 'stink-merchant' by the students.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maynard was a chubby, dauntless, clever, and impudent boy, who volunteered to construe during the explosions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Five bombs had fallen in and around Brookfield, the nearest just outside the school ground, resulting in nine persons killed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips never turned a hair; he found an old tag to illustrate the way Germans fought and kept his class undisturbed, laughing with tears running down his face.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips was a legend with his old and tattered gown, his walk beginning to stumble, mild eyes peering over his spectacles, and his quaintly humorous remarks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The news came in the morning that the war was over, a holiday was announced for the school, and there was much cheering, singing, and a bread fight across the dining hall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips sent his resignation to the Board of Governors after his visit to the dining hall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Chips liked the summer season best because the weather suited him and there were continual visits of the old boys.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gregson was the tall boy with spectacles who was always late for everything and got a job in the League of Nations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips disapproved that the new master fresh from Oxford let the sixth call him by his Christian name.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips earned the reputation of being a great jester; wherever he went, there was laughter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips's income was more than he needed to spend, as he invested in gilt-edged stocks and did not suffer during the slump.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1930, Chips made his will, leaving all he had to found an open entrance scholarship to the school, except for legacies to the mission and to Mrs. Wickett.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Everyone asked him questions as if he were some kind of prophet and an encyclopedia combined, and they liked the answers dished up as a joke.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips had seen the name Wurlitzer on the hoardings but always thought it was a kind of sausage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The things he had done and seen; Cambridge in the 60s, Great Gable on August morning; Brookfield at all times and seasons throughout the year.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips had never traveled by air and had never been to a talky show.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Linford was a small boy who had just come out of the sanatorium due to measles; he was the last student of Brookfield who met Mr. Chips the day before he died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips talked about his first day at Brookfield, Shropshire, school and school life in general, and news in the day’s paper.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips let Linford in, served him tea with walnut cake even though he had not invited him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips thought the goodbye joke was traditional, remembering Katherine using the same phrase on their wedding day, which made him tearful.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips had fainted; Mrs. Wicket noticed it when she returned after visiting a relative in the neighboring village.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips felt very weak and was surprised by the weakness in his voice; he wasn't even bothered about the details of the situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cartwright was the head of Brookfield since 1919. Chips still thought of him as new.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cartwright whispered to Merivale that Chips must have lived a lonely sort of life; when Merivale said Chips was married and that his wife died, Cartwright said it was a pity he never had any children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips said with quavering merriment that he had children, 'thousands of them… and all boys...'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Linford will always remember and tell the tale that he said goodbye to Mr. Chips the night before he died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips died in November 1933 at the age of 85.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cartwright said in a speech to the school, 'Brookfield will never forget his loveableness.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips measured time like some old sea captain by the signals of the past.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dr. Merivale encouraged Chips by saying that he would die a natural death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dr. Merivale visited Mr. Chips every fortnight for his medical examination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Chips did not suffer from any particular disease; it was only old age.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips was born in 1848.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips could boast that he was taken to the Great Exhibition as a toddler.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips did not like Melbury because he had been ragged there a great deal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He served there for a year.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Wetherby was the headmaster of Brookfield who interviewed Mr. Chips in 1870.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wetherby advised Chips to give his enthusiasm to Brookfield and take up a firm attitude.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Colley was the first boy Chips punished in Brookfield for dropping the desk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was situated across the road behind the ancient elms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was established in the reign of Elizabeth as a grammar school.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reputation of Brookfield kept fluctuating, becoming renowned at times and dwindling at others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main structure had been rebuilt and large additions made.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wetherby served Brookfield from 1840 to 1870.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mostly judges, Members of Parliament, colonial administrators, and a few peers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His dream was to eventually get headship or at least a senior mastership.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His degree was not particularly good, and he had no family connections.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>At fifty, he became the Doyen of the staff.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In 1913, when he turned sixty-five.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was presented a cheque, a writing desk, and a clock.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mrs. Wickett's house was situated across the road to Brookfield; it was ugly and pretentious.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it was convenient and provided close contact with Brookfield.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a small but very comfortable and sunny room.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He liked to stroll across to the playing fields and watch the games.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He made a special point of getting to know all the new boys and having them to tea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He served them walnut cake with pink icing and crumpets during winter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Collingwood was a student of Chips in 1902; he later received a medal and was killed in Egypt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a pleasant, placid life with no worries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The books were chiefly classical, with some history and detective novels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He sometimes read Virgil or Xenophon but preferred detective novels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips thought they were dead languages from which gentlemen ought to know some quotations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He spent his time drinking tea, receiving callers, and writing letters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People thought Mr. Chips was a bachelor, which was incorrect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips went to the Lake District in the summer of 1896 with a colleague, Rowden.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips rushed to help Katherine after seeing her wave from a ledge, but he slipped and injured himself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He did not care for women and felt uneasy around them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nice women were weak, timid, and treated with distant chivalry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine Bridges was twenty-five, with blue eyes and smooth straw-colored hair.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She believed women should be admitted to universities and have a vote.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She thought he was quiet, middle-aged, and serious-looking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She liked him because he was hard to get to know and had gentle manners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He used to look down and wonder which foot had performed a signal service.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips could re-smell the washed air after heavy rain.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine was afraid he might be in an unappealing profession like a stockbroker.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it meant influencing those who are going to grow up and matter to the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He told her about his mediocre degree and discipline challenges.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine was married from the house of an aunt in Ealing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine was immensely popular with boys and masters alike.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips had been a dry and rather neutral sort of person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine made him a new man; he became more popular and humorous.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He aimed to be loved, honored, and obeyed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She suggested that a team from the mission should play a soccer match.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Brookfield ran a mission in East London, contributing to the local community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine faced a frosty reception; the staff were against the idea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine explained that England's class division should not be absolute.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The boys played soccer and had high tea at the school, leaving a positive impression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Memories of Katherine laughing at essays and tending to various events.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She told him to tell the boys frankly about his punishments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She urged it when boys were too cocksure of themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dunster put a rat in the organ-loft during choir practice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He made desultory notes in an exercise book about his memories.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Writing made Chips tired mentally and physically, and memories lost flavor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips paced through as if in some horrifying nightmare.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Faulkner was a student who met Mr. Chips on the day Katherine died.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He asked for the afternoon off to receive his family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips nearly responded that he wished he were dead himself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There were letters addressed to him containing nothing but blank sheets.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Katherine died during childbirth on April 1, 1898.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wanted to get used to things before facing others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He started looking old after the stupor of grief wore off.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips moved to his old bachelor quarters in the school house.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips found comfort in his work, filling the emptiness in his heart.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His habits and jokes merged into a harmony; he felt pride in his position.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips no longer had slight disciplinary troubles or doubts about his worth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He had acquired the right to certain gentle eccentricities typical of schoolmasters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She left him with calmness and a poise that suited his emotions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He stood on a wooden bench to verify each boy's name.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The verifying glance of Chips while taking call-over.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips thought Boers were engaged in a struggle similar to English heroes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Lloyd George visited Brookfield School.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chips became acting head after old Meldrum died suddenly from pneumonia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mr. Ralston was made the Head of Brookfield after Chips.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ralston was glittering with Firsts and could silence with a mere eyebrow raise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The school bell changed at an unaccustomed time.</p> Signup and view all the answers