Q: CHAPTER VIII 

KIPPS ENTERS SOCIETY 

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Submission to Inexorable Fate took Kipps to the Anagram Tea. 

At any rate he would meet Helen there in the presence of other people and be able to carry off the worst of the difficulty of explaining his little jaunt to London. He had not seen her since his last portentous visit to New Romney. He was engaged to her, he would have to marry her, and the sooner he faced her again the better. Before wild plans of turning socialist, defying the world and repudiating all calling for ever, his heart on second thoughts sank. He felt Helen would never permit anything of the sort. As for the Anagrams he could do no more than his best and that he was resolved to do. What had happened at the Royal Grand, what had happened at New Romney, he must bury in his memory and begin again at the reconstruction of his social position. Ann, Buggins, Chitterlow, all these, seen in the matter-of-fact light of the Folkestone train, stood just as they stood before; people of an inferior social position who had to be eliminated from his world. It was a bother about Ann, a bother and a pity. His mind rested so for a space on Ann until the memory of these Anagrams drew him away. If he could see Coote that evening he might, he thought, be able to arrange some sort of connivance about the Anagrams, and his mind was chiefly busy sketching proposals for such an arrangement. It would not, of course, be ungentlemanly cheating, but only a little mystification. Coote very probably might drop him a hint of the solution of one or two of the things, not enough to win a prize, but enough to cover his shame. Or failing that he might take a humorous, quizzical line and pretend he was pretending to be very stupid. There were plenty of ways out of it if one kept a sharp lookout.... 

Answer the following questions:
1. Who is Kipps engaged to?
2. Has it been a while since he saw her?
3. When was it?
4. Where will he see her?
5. What kind of occasion is it?
6. Does he need to explain something to her?
7. What?
8. Does he think it will be easy?
9. What is he going to start restoring?
10. Who is in a lower class than him?
11. What should happen to people like that?
12. Why?
13. What was he planning to become?
14. What didn't he?
15. Who is he hoping to see tonight?
16. What help does he think he might get?
17. Can he help him with a solution?
18. Is he proud?
19. Are there a lot of options?
20. what might he pretend?
A: 1. Helen
2. yes
3. unknown
4. in the presence of other people
5. an anagram contest
6. yes
7. little jaunt to London.
8. no
9. his social position.
10. Ann, Buggins, Chitterlow,
11. they had to be eliminated from his world.
12. unknown
13. a socialist,
14. Helen would never permit anything of the sort
15. Coote
16. some sort of connivance about the Anagrams
17. yes
18. yes
19. yes
20. to pretend he was pretending to be very stupid.

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXX 

GOOD-BYE TO ALASKA--CONCLUSION 

"Is that your sled?" 

"Yah. Vait, I vos sthop dem!" yelled Gus Schmidt, and with a dexterity that was really marvelous he turned his own team about and in a few seconds was traveling after the runaways. 

"Wait! I'm going to get off! To look for my brother!" cried Dick, and as the German slackened his speed for a few seconds, the oldest Rover boy sprang out in the snow. He went sprawling, but was not injured. Almost before he knew it, the two sleds had disappeared and he was left alone. 

All around him were the vast and mysterious fields of ice and snow. Far off he could hear the barking of the dogs, but this soon died out, and then came utter silence--a silence that seemed to fairly weigh him down. And now the snow started to come down harder than ever. 

Had Dick Rover been less stout-hearted than he was he would have then and there given up the hunt for his brother. But Dick had the stuff of a real hero in him, and he went forward through the snow, bending low to escape the wind and to keep his eyes on that slowly disappearing trail. 

Thus half an hour went by, and by that time, weighed down as he was by his heavy clothing and heavy footwear, Dick was well-nigh exhausted. He stopped to rest and to get his breath, and then, struck with a sudden idea, let out that old familiar locomotive whistle of Putnam Hall fame. 

1. Who did Dick want to look for?
2. Who is the German?
3. What does he turn around to pursue?
4. True or False: The German was very skilled at controlling his sled and team.
5. Was Dick a brave person?
6. How long did Dick search before he was tired?
7. What hindered him in his search?
8. What sound did he make?
9. Where was that sound well-known?
10. Was it raining?
11. Snowing?
12. Did Gus stop the sled so Dick could get off it?
13. Did he stay nearby?
14. What was the last sound Dick could hear before all was quiet?
15. What did he bend down to avoid?
16. What was he following that was fading away?
17. Which Rover was the oldest?
18. How many sleds vanished?
19. What covered the fields around Dick?
20. How did Dick get off the sled?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. his brother
2. Gus Schmidt
3. the runaways
4. Gus Schmidt, and with a dexterity that was really marvelous
5. yes
6. half an hour
7. heavy clothing and footwear
8. a locomotive whistle
9. yes
10. no
11. yes
12. no
13. no
14. barking dogs
15. the wind
16. the trail
17. Dick
18. two
19. ice and snow
20. he jumped off

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIII 

"But why should Mrs. Grant ask Fanny?" said Lady Bertram. "How came she to think of asking Fanny? Fanny never dines there, you know, in this sort of way. I cannot spare her, and I am sure she does not want to go. Fanny, you do not want to go, do you?" 

"If you put such a question to her," cried Edmund, preventing his cousin's speaking, "Fanny will immediately say No; but I am sure, my dear mother, she would like to go; and I can see no reason why she should not." 

"I cannot imagine why Mrs. Grant should think of asking her? She never did before. She used to ask your sisters now and then, but she never asked Fanny." 

"If you cannot do without me, ma'am--" said Fanny, in a self-denying tone. 

"But my mother will have my father with her all the evening." 

"To be sure, so I shall." 

"Suppose you take my father's opinion, ma'am." 

"That's well thought of. So I will, Edmund. I will ask Sir Thomas, as soon as he comes in, whether I can do without her." 

"As you please, ma'am, on that head; but I meant my father's opinion as to the _propriety_ of the invitation's being accepted or not; and I think he will consider it a right thing by Mrs. Grant, as well as by Fanny, that being the _first_ invitation it should be accepted." 

"I do not know. We will ask him. But he will be very much surprised that Mrs. Grant should ask Fanny at all." 

1. What did Mrs Grant want?
2. to do what?
3. Who doesn't want her to go?
4. Why?
5. Who thinks she should go?
6. Whom is he?
7. Who did Mrs Grant ask before?
8. What did Edmund suggest?
9. who is his father?
10. Who did not let Fanny answer?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Fanny
2. to dine somewhere
3. Lady Bertram
4. she cannot spare her
5. Edmund
6. her cousin
7. his sisters
8. ask his father's opinion
9. Sir Thomas
10. Edmund