GOING PLACES

A.R.BARTON
1. What were the various dreams Sophie indulged in?
2. Why does Jansie discourage her?
3. Why did Sophie wriggle when Geoff told her father that she had met Danny
Casey?
4. Did Geoff believe what Sophie said about her meeting with Danny Casey?
5. Did her father believe her story?
6. How did Sophie include her brother Geoff in her fantasy of her future?
7. Which country did D.C. play for and what did people think of him?
8. Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story?
9. Did Sophie really meet Danny?
10. Which was the only occasion when she got to see Danny in person?
11. Why did Sophie’s dreams upset Jansie?
12. What did Sophie’s father expect of her?
13. What do Sophie’s dream tell us about her?
14. Why was Sophie jealous of her brother Geoff?
15. What doubts does father have about a younger like Danny Casey making it
big?
16. Why was Sophie sad when Danny did not turn up by the canal?
17. What does Sophie dream of doing after she passes out of school? Why do you
call it a dream and not a plan?
18. What are the other dreams of Sophie in addition to having a boutique?
19. Why does Jansie say: Soaf, you really should be sensible?
20. What is Job Geoff engaged in? How does he differ from his sister Sophie?
21. Why was Sophie jealous of Geoff’s silence?
22. What does Sophie tell Geoff about her meeting with D.C.? How does Geoff
react to it?
23. How does Sophie’s father react when Geoff tells him about her meeting with
D.C.?
24. “He don’t believe you – though he’d like to “ Who says so, about whom and
in what context?
25. Why was the visit of Sophie’s father and his family to watch United ‘ their
weekly pilgrimage?
26. Where did Sophie meet D.C and what transpired between them?
27. What promise does Sophie want Geoff to make and why?
28. Did Geoff keep his promise? How do you know?
29. Why did Sophie not want Janie to know anything about their meeting with
D.C.?
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30. How did Jansie react at Sophie’s story of her meeting with D.C.?
31. What did Sophie want to keep a secret form her father and why? How did
Janise react to his disclosure?
32. Why did Sophie choose to walk by the canal? What did she do there?
33. How did Sophie react as kept sitting for hours, waiting for D.C. and imagining
his coming?
34. Why does Janie discourage Sophie about her dream?
35. What should be the priority of Sophie about her dream?
36. Who is Geoff? What does he do?
37. What is the difference between Geoff and Sophie?
38. What does Sophie’s father think of D.C.?
39. What happens on one Saturday?
40. What happens to Sophie’s dream about Danny?
41. Who are the two girls? What do they talk about while coming home form
school?
42. Sophie is a typical adolescent hero-worshipper who carries her fantasizing to
far’ Comment? L
43. ‘Sophie’s dreams and disappointment s are all in her mind’ Do you agree?
Give reasons in support of your answer? L
44. Sophie has her own dreams and disappointment, but they are all her creations
– the creations of her own mind. Justify the statement. (L)
45. Sophie and Jansie were classmates. What were their dissimilarities? (Long)
46. How would you describe the character and temperament of Sophie’s father?
(L)
47. Why did Sophie like her brother Geoff more than any other person? What did
he symbolize for her?(L)
48. What socio economic background did Sophie belong to and what were the
indicators of their financial status?(L)
49. Describe the bond between Geoff and Sophie in spite of differences in their
temperament and thinking?
50. Who was D.C.? How was he adored the family of Sophie, and specially by
Sophie and her father. (L)