An Inspector Calls

Question 1

The lighting is ‘pink and intimate’ till the Inspector arrives,

Answer 1

then it becomes ‘brighter and harder’. (Stage Directions, Act 1)

Question 2

Girls of…

Answer 2

That class Mrs Birling (Act 2)

Question 3

And to that I say - fiddlesticks! The Germans don’t want war, the Titanic is…

Answer 3

unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable and There’ll be peace and prosperity and rapid progress everywhere. (Mr Birling, Act 1)

Question 4

‘I suppose it was inevitable. She was young and pretty and warm-hearted - and intensely grateful.

Answer 4

I became at once the most important person in her life’ (Gerald, Act 2)

Question 5

‘I’m talking as a hard-headed, practical man of business…

Answer 5

‘a man has to make his own way’ (Mr Birling, Act 1)

Question 6

‘as if we were all mixed up together likes bees in a hive -

Answer 6

community and all that nonsense’. (Mr Birling, Act 1)

Question 7

‘You and I aren’t the same people who sat down to dinner here.

Answer 7

We’d have to start all over again, getting to know each other…’ (Sheila, Act 2)

Question 8

Inspector: ‘A chain of events.’ Birling:

Answer 8

‘Still, I can’t accept any responsibility.’ (Act 1)

Question 9

But these girls aren’t

Answer 9

cheap labour - they’re people.’ (Sheila, Act 1)

Question 10

‘I’m sorry she should have come to such a horrible end.

Answer 10

But I accept no blame for it at all.’ (Mrs Birling, Act 2)

Question 11

‘So I’m really responsible?’,

Answer 11

‘It was my own fault.’ (Sheila, Act 1)

Question 12

‘One Eva Smith has gone - but there are millions and millions and millions of

Answer 12

Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us, with their lives, their hopes and fears, their suffering and chance of happiness, all intertwined with our lives” Inspector Act 3

Question 13

We don’t live alone. We are…

Answer 13

members of one body. We are responsible for each other.” Inspector Act 3

Question 14

And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not

Answer 14

learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.’ (Inspector - Act 3, final words)

Question 15

‘(sternly to Gerald and Sheila) You see, we have to share something.

Answer 15

If there’s nothing else, we’ll have to share our guilt.’ (Inspector, Act 2)

Question 16

We often do on the young ones.

Answer 16

They’re more impressionable.’ (Inspector, Act 2)

Question 17

‘I tell you - whoever that Inspector was, it was anything but a joke. You knew it then.

Answer 17

You began to learn something. And now you’ve stopped. You’re ready to go on in the same old way.’ (Sheila, Act 3)

Question 18

I don’t dislike you as I did half an hour ago, Gerald. In fact, in some odd way,

Answer 18

I rather respect you more than I’ve ever done before. (Shiela, Act 2)

Question 19

If you think you can bring any pressure to bear on me, Inspector, you’re quite mistaken.

Answer 19

Unlike the other three, I did nothing I’m ashamed of or that won’t bear investigation. (Mrs Birling, Act 2)