An Inspecto Calls

Question 1

Quote 1t

Answer 1

‘Arthur Birling is a heavy looking, rather portentous man’ … ‘rather provincial in his speech’

Question 2

Quote 2

Answer 2

‘Giving us the port Edna?’

Question 3

Quote 3

Answer 3

‘You ought to like this port, Gerald. As a matter of fact, Finchley told me it’s the same port your father gets from him.’

Question 4

Quote 4

Answer 4

‘we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together – for lower costs and higher prices. ’

Question 5

Quote 5

Answer 5

‘Sheila’s a lucky girl - and I think you’re a pretty fortunate young man too, Gerald’

Question 6

Quote 6

Answer 6

‘Are you listening, Sheila? This concerns you too. And after all I don’t often make speeches at you-‘

Question 7

Quote 7

Answer 7

‘Fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war. Nobody wants war.’

Question 8

Quote 8

Answer 8

‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business. And I say there isn’t a chance of war.’

Question 9

Quote 9

Answer 9

‘The Titanic- she sails next week’-‘Unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable’

Question 10

Quote 10

Answer 10

‘Let’s say, in 1940- you might be having a little party like this - your sons and daughters might be getting engaged.’

Question 11

Mind his own business?

Answer 11

‘A man has to mind his own business and look after himself’

Question 12

Knighthood

Answer 12

‘There’s a fair chance that I might find my way into the next Honours List.’ Just a knighthood, of course’

Question 13

Police Court

Answer 13

‘So as long as we behave ourselves don’t get into the police court or start a scandal -eh?’

Question 14

Lord Mayor

Answer 14

‘I was an alderman for years – and Lord Mayor two years ago – and I’m still on the Bench.’

Question 15

Employees and discharged

Answer 15

‘She was one of my employees and then I discharged her.’

Question 16

Girls suicide

Answer 16

‘It has nothing whatever to do with this wretched girls suicide. Eh, Inspector?’

Question 17

Can’t accept responsibility

Answer 17

‘I can’t accept any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward’

Question 18

Tone

Answer 18

‘I don’t like that tone’

Question 19

Haven’ t started the works

Answer 19

[to Eric] Look – you just keep out of this. You hadn’t even started in the works when this happened.’

Question 20

Usual rates, free country

Answer 20

‘We were paying the usual rates and if they didn’t like those rates, they could go and work somewhere else. It’s a free country, I told them.’