1. Who is the writter of 'Going Places' ?
Answer: A. R. Barton is the writter of 'Going Places'.
2. Write the two friends name in the story 'Going Places'.
Answer: In the story 'Going Places', the two friends are Sophie and Jansie.
3. Who is Derek?
Answer: Derek is Sophie's little brother.
4. Who is Geoff?
Answer: Geoff is Sophie's elder brother.
5. Which is the only occasion that Sophie gets to see Danny Casey in person?
Answer: The only occasion that Sophie gets to see Danny Casey in person is in the football matches.
6. What is a wharf?
Answer: A wharf is a dockside.
7. What kind of appearance did Casey have, according to Sophie?
Answer: According to Sophie Danney Casey was tall with a strong dark face.
8. Where did Sophie's father go to celebrate?
Answer: Sophie's father went to the pub to celebrate.
9. Who is Jansie?
Answer: Jansie is Sophie's Classmate and friend?
10. With whom did Sophie Share her secrets?
Answer: Sophie shared her secrets with her elder brother Geoff.
11. Where was it more likely that the two girls would find work after school?
Answer: It is more likely that two girls would find work in the biscuit factory after school.
12. Why didn't Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?
Answer: Sophie didn't want Jansie to know about her encounter with Danny because she feared that Jansie would spread her story to the whole neighbourhood.
13. Did Sophie really meet Danny Casey?
Answer: In reality she didn’t meet Danny Casey. She made a fake story only to get attention from Geoff and others.
14. Why was Sophie jealous of Geoff’s silence?
Answer: Geoff never spoke much. Sophie always pondered over the areas of his life which he never talked about. His world remained a fascination for her. She felt that when he was not speaking, his mind was away at some unknown place, and so she felt jealous of him.
15. What did Sophie imagine about her meeting with Danny Casey?
Answer: Sophie imagined that she had met Danny Casey at Royce’s and asked him for an autograph but could not get it as neither of them had paper or pen. Casey promised to meet her gain next week.
NCERT Additional Solutions for Class 12 Flamingo Chapter 1 -GOING PLACES
1. Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school? 2. What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? 3. Why did Sophie w