Going Places
Going Places short question answer.
1. Who is Geoff?
Ans:-Geoff is Sophie's elder brother.
2. Who is Danny Casey?
Ans:- Danny Casey was a British football player.
3. Which country does he play for?
Ans:- He plays for the United States.
4. Does Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
Ans:- Sophie does not really meet Danny Casey but only imagines meeting him.
5. Which is the only occasion that Sophie gets to see Casey in person?
Ans:- Sophie does not really meet Danny Casey but only imagines meeting him.
6. How does Jansie react to Sophie ?
Ans:- Jansie warns Sophie against those far - fetched false dreams.
7. Whom does Sophie rely on and why?
Ans:- Sophie relied on her elder brother Geoff because she feels she can share her stories with him and he would never let her down.
8. What was the reaction of Sophie's father when he hears of Sophie's stories about Danny?
Ans:- Firstly, she did not believe in her story. Secondly he gets angry to hear another of her stupid dreams. He is full of disdain towards her.
9. What was the secret to tell which Sophie takes from her brother Geoff?
Ans:- Sophie takes a promise from Geoff to tell him that she had intimate talks with Danny and that he had told her to meet him alone.
10. Did Sophie really meet Danny personally?
Ans:- No, She only got to see him in a match he was playing in.
11. What was Geoff's reply to her?.
Ans:- He told her that she was too young for that.
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Going Places extra Question Answer
1. Why does not her father believe her?
Ans:- Sophie's father does not believe her story because he was aware that she fantasizes things. He know that it was another wild story of hers.
12. Why does not Sophie want Jansie to know about her supposed meeting with Casey?
Ans:- Sophie did not want Jansie to know about supposed meeting with Danny Casey because Jansie was nosey about things and she would spread it and the whole neighborhood would come to know it.
3. Why is Sophie jealous of his silence?
Ans:- Sophie was jealous of her brother Geoff's silence when he was not talking it seemed to her as though he was away in a wonderful world. This world attained a special fascination for her simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach.
4. How does Danny Casey look like?
Ans:- Danny Casey was a man of slightly short stature with soft and gentle green eyes.
5. Which is the only occasion that Sophe's gets to see Casey an autograph?
Ans:- The only occasion that Sophie gets to see Danny Casey is in the field when they watch the match every Saturday.
6. Why was Jausie doubtful about Sophie gets to see Casey in person?
Ans:- Because Sophie wanted to keep her story a secret and confided in Geoff.She was her best friend but she did not disclose her anything about Danny Casey.
7. 'I' will be like Mary Quant ........' what does Sophie mean by that?
Ans:-By this line it is clear that she wanted a life of Sophistication and glamour. She was a dreamer and loved to live in a world of fantasies.
8. Why was Jausie melancholic?
Ans:- Jansie is not like Sophie, she lead a realistic life. She knows well that in her present life she can't think about for fetched things. She has learnt to be satisfied with her fate in the biscuit factory.After hearing about Sophie's meet with Casey she was excited and wished that she too was present there.
9. Why did Sophie feel a frightening in her throat?
Ans:- The sudden contrast between her world of dreams and the reality at home brought the fightening feeling in her throat.
10. What is the 'archade'?
Ans:- A covered passage with arches along one or both sides.
11. Why did Sophie's family cheer for Casey?
Ans:- Danny Casey played football for Ireland, and they won the match. So Sophie's family cheer for Casey.
Going Places Long Question Answer class 12
Ans:- Sophie is portrayed as a very highly ambitious girl. She is yet to be out of schools and she makes such far fetched plans for her life after school. She tells her classmate Jansie that she will have the finest boutiques and then she would have the best shop in the town. For this she would need money, so she would work as a manager in a company. Jansie tells her that none would give her a manager's job straightway but Sophie goes on. She says she would become an actress or a fashion designer. In reality though, she belongs to a poor family. She likes to live in a world of fantasy, she makes up stories about her meeting with the young player Danny Casey and their intimate talks. She shares her false stories about the meeting with her brother. She is warned by her friend, father and her brother, but she continues to be the same full of imagination and fanciful ideas.
2. Why does Sophie feel close to her brother Geoff more than any one else in her family? What does he symbolize to her?
Ans:- For Sophie her brother Geoff was the only person with whom she could share her secrets. He listened to her attentively. Her father, on the other hand was aware of his daughter's habit of fantasizing things and he never believed in her wild stories. He even cautioned her that her fantasies might bring troubles to her some day.
Geoff was three years out of school an apprentice mechanic now, always traveling to his cu-orb on the far side of the city. He was grown up and Sophie suspected that there were areas of his life of which she was not aware of Geoff talked very little, and never about himself, at least voluntarily. She was jealous of his silence. When he was not speaking it always seemed to her that he was in a world to which she had never been. She developed a strange fascination for that world because it was unknown to her and remained always out her reach. She felt there were some exotic and interesting people in his world of whom he never spoke. She always longed to know them. She wished she could be admitted more deeply in the brother's affection so that some day he would take her with him. She felt that there was a wonderful world waiting for her and that she would feel quite at home there. She imagined riding there behind Geoff. In her imagination she saw how people would greet them there as they entered in their shinning dresses.
class 12 going places question answer
3. Sketch the character of Sophie's brother Geoff.
Ans:- Geoff, Sophie's elder brother is a reserved kind of guy. He has been three years out of school and works as an apprentice mechanic. He talks very little and barely shares his secrets with anyone. Sophie is fond of him and fees that her brother will never let her down, she is intimate with him and likes him the most. She shares her false dreams with him. But Geoff does not like her fantastic stories and he hardly believes in her. He does not encourage her, rather he keeps telling her that her aspirations are all false. As a brother he does love her but hardly supports her fantasies. Sophie fees that she will get support from her brother because he listens patiently to her stories. But actually Geoff only hears about her stories paying no head what so ever. He dose not talk much and only because of that he does not oppose her too much. He only hears the stories to keep Sophie's heart. Though she insists him to take her out in the town he never does so as he knows she is young and that her false dreams will land her in trouble.
4. While Sophie has no touch with reality JanÅŸie feet are firmly planted on the ground. Show how Sophie and Jansie though friends, are poles apart in character and temperament.
Ans:-Sophie and Jansie were classmates and friends. Both of them hailed from lower middle class background and were earmarked for the biscuit factory. But both were quite different in their characters and temperament. While Jansie was practical and realistic Sophie lived a world of fantasy. She dream of owning a boutiques. Jansie rightly pointed that it required lots of money for a boutique. But Sophie could hardly be dissuade from imagining wild dreams. She also dream of becoming an actress or a fashion designer.
Her unrealistic dreams were not confined to the imagination of a dazzling life in future but extended to winning the attention of the Irish footfall prodigy Danny Casey. She even imagined him inviting her for a meeting
Jansie could hardly make her friend Sophie to see reasons and it made her sad. But Sophie's sadness was creation of her fantasy. Sitting under an elm tree waiting and knowing that Danny would not come she needed to pretend to be sad to keep alive her fantasy or also how could she make Geoff believe in her wild stories. :
5. How would you contrast between Sophie's fantasizes and her reality?
Ans:- Sophie was a young school girl who is about to pass out of school in a few days. She is highly ambitious and her ambitious nature reaches an in-touchable extent. She tells her friends Jansie about her dreams of becoming a manager an actress a fashion designer and having elegant boutiques and shops. In real life she is a girl from a simple family in which the father works the whole day, the mother has to work hard with the household. They have a small and untidy house. They are not at all in a position to fulfill her false unrealistic dreams, but Sophie listens to none and adds up her fantasies. She tells her brother Geoff about her chance meeting with Danny Casey- the famous Irish player. She also tells that Danny will meet her alone some where. Her brother and father discourage her but she goes to a seduced place to meet her fancied man and had to return heart broken. So she has to suffer for not being aware of her real life.
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