An Inspector Calls

Question 1

Responsibility - Mr Birling
Man has to …

Answer 1

Man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own

Question 2

Responsibility - Mr Birling
shifting blames

Answer 2

Well I did what any employer might have done

Question 3

Responsibility - Mr Birling
opinion on responsible to each other

Answer 3

it would be very awkward, wouldn’t it?

Question 4

Responsibility - Mrs Birling
shifting blames

Answer 4

I accept no blame at all […] I would blame the young man who was the father of the child

Question 5

Responsibility - Gerald

Answer 5

She didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now

Question 6

Responsibility - Eric
guilty

Answer 6

You lot may be letting yourselves out nicely, but I can’t

Question 7

Responsibility - Inspector

Answer 7

millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths […] we are members of one body.

Question 8

Class - Mr Birling
his status

Answer 8

I was lord mayor two years ago […] good chance of a knighthood

Question 9

Class - Mr Birling
on about lower class

Answer 9

If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people, they’d soon be asking for the earth.

Question 10

Class - Mr Birling
simile about socialism

Answer 10

mixed together like bees in a hive

Question 11

Class - Sheila
metaphor

Answer 11

You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl

Question 12

Class - Mrs Birling
prejudice

Answer 12

As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money

Question 13

Class - Inspector
warning

Answer 13

If men will not learn that lesson, then they well be taught it in fire and blood and anguish

Question 14

Gender - Mr Birling
clothes

Answer 14

clothes mean something quite different to women […] a sort of sign or token of their self-respect.

Question 15

Gender - Gerald
own opinion

Answer 15

I hate those hard-eyed dough-faced women.

Question 16

Gender - Eric
opinion on Eva

Answer 16

she was pretty and a good sport.

Question 17

Gender - Inspector
question

Answer 17

You think young woman ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things?

Question 18

Gender - Mr Birling
reason of sacking Eva

Answer 18

She’d had a lot to say - far too much - so she had to go

Question 19

Young vs Old - Inspector

Answer 19

We often do on the young ones - They’re are impressionable

Question 20

Young vs Old - Mr Birling
own experience in school

Answer 20

You youngsters - and I’ve learnt in the good hard school experience

Question 21

Young vs Old - Inspector
about over-protection

Answer 21

Your daughter isn’t living on the moon

Question 22

Young vs Old - Mrs Birling
being pissed off

Answer 22

You’re behaving like a hysterical child tonight

Question 23

Young vs Old - Eric
argue against his father

Answer 23

You’re not the kind of father a chap could go to when he’s in trouble

Question 24

Young vs Old - Mr Birling
judges the younger ones

Answer 24

The way you children talk, you might be wanting to help him instead of us

Question 25

Young vs Old - Ｍr Birling
judges the younger ones as taking it too seriously

Answer 25

the famous younger generation who know it all And they can’t even take a joke.

Question 26

Sheila - Starting character and language

Answer 26

pretty girl in the early twenties
You’re squiffy

Question 27

Responsibility - Sheila
about working class

Answer 27

But these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people

Question 28

Resposibility - Sheila
sochastic tone

Answer 28

I suppose we’re all nice people now

Question 29

Gerald - starting character

Answer 29

well-bred, young-man-about-town

Question 30

Responsibilty - Gerald
make his action sounds better

Answer 30

I didn’t install her there so that I could make love to her

Question 31

Gender - Mrs Birling
talk about men

Answer 31

men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all their time and energy on their business

Question 32

Wealth - setting

Answer 32

fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous manufacturer

Question 33

Wealth - business engagement

Answer 33

when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but are working together - for lower costs and higher prices

Question 34

Wealth - things on their table

Answer 34

Champagne glasses and cigar box

Question 35

Wealth - Mr Birling defending Gerald

Answer 35

I’m not defending him. But you must understand a lot of young men -

Question 36

Wealth - Eva’s salary

Answer 36

She wanted twenty-five shillings a week instead of twenty-two and six pence. You made her pay a heavy price for that.

Question 37

Wealth - Mr Birling try to cover this up

Answer 37

I’d give thousands - yes, thousands

Question 38

Inspector - first impression

Answer 38

creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity and purposefulness

Question 39

Inspector - It’s better …

Answer 39

It’s better to ask for the earth than to take it

Question 40

Inspector - Repeatedly saying her death

Answer 40

It’s too late. She’s dead. Yes, she’s dead.

Question 41

Inspector - Mr Birling’s identity

Answer 41

Public men, Mr Birling have responsibilities as well as priviledges

Question 42

Inspector - duty

Answer 42

I’m waiting … to do my duty

Question 43

Inspector - all of Birlings killed Eva

Answer 43

But each of you helped to kill her